Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 82
But Shikhandi’s mother said, “We only relied on the word of the gods.
Who acts: mother, We · What happens: say, rely, word · To what, where: gods · 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 (mother, We), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | Shikhandi | Shikhandi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Shikhandi | case |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 relied | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 relied | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 relied | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 relied | advmod |
| 10 | relied | rely | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 word | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 relied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gods | det |
| 16 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 word | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shikhandi's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rely in a quote | past | We | on the word of the gods | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word in a quote | the gods | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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