Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 87
And, wandering, she came to a great forest, and to a great house the doors of which were open.
Who acts: Shikhandi, doors · What happens: wonder, come, be · To what, where: great forest
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 (Shikhandi, doors), 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 | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandering | punct |
| 3 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandering | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forest | amod |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 open | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 open | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 open | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 doors | det |
| 18 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 open | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 doors | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 open | cop |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Shikhandi not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Shikhandi | a great forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the doors | to a great house; open 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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