Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 77
And again by the advice of the Queen, they sought for her the most beautiful princess in all India.
Who acts: Dhritarashtra · What happens: seek · To what, where: beautiful princess, India
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 (Dhritarashtra), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 advice | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 advice | advmod |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 advice | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 advice | det |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 advice | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sought | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sought | nsubj |
| 11 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sought | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princess | amod |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sought | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 India | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 India | det |
| 20 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 princess | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 advice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Dhritarashtra | the beautiful princess | all India | for child | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent princess=Location for she=Theme |
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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