Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 89
And Shikhandi sat down in the house, and brooded, heeding not time nor self, in her great desire to save her people.
Who acts: Shikhandi · What happens: sit down, brood, heed, save, desire · To what, where: house, great desire, people, Shikhandi
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), 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 | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | Shikhandi | Shikhandi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brooded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brooded | cc |
| 10 | brooded | brood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heeding | punct |
| 12 | heeding | heed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 brooded | advcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 time | advmod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heeding | obj |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 self | cc |
| 16 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 desire | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 desire | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 desire | nmod:poss |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 desire | amod |
| 21 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heeding | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 save | mark |
| 23 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 desire | acl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 save | obj |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 save | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Shikhandi | the house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | brood | past | Shikhandi not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | heed | gerund | Shikhandi not said here | Shikhandi's great desire | time | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | Shikhandi not said here | people | Shikhandi | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary people=Theme | |||
| 5 | desire | Shikhandi | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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