Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 71

Then as he still prayed and prayed, Shiva appeared to him and told him that he should have a son who should first be a daughter.

Who acts: Drupada, Shiva, son · What happens: pray, appear, tell, have, be · To what, where: Drupada, son, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drupada, Shiva, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 prayed	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 prayed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prayed	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 prayed	advmod
5	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 prayed	cc
7	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prayed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 appeared	punct
9	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	nsubj
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prayed	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 appeared	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 appeared	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 son	det
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 daughter	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 daughter	aux
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 daughter	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 daughter	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 daughter	det
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 son	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	Drupada			then; still		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	pray	past	Drupada not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	appear	past	Shiva		Drupada			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Shiva not said here		Drupada			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have	should	Drupada	a son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
6	is a	should	a son	a daughter			first property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 71