Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 90
And to her presently came the kind Yakshas, whose the palace was, and he asked her what she wished.
Who acts: Yakshas, Shikhandi · What happens: come, be, ask, wish · To what, where: kind, Shikhandi, palace · 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 (Yakshas, 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 | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obj |
| 8 | Yakshas | Yakshas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 palace | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 palace | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 wished | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wished | nsubj |
| 21 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the kind | Shikhandi | presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kind=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the kind's palace | the kind nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Yakshas | Shikhandi | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | Shikhandi | what obj | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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