Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 92
My father is about to be destroyed: and if I were a man this would not happen.
Who acts: father, I, man · What happens: be, destroy, not happen · To what, where: man
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 (father, I, man), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 destroyed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 7 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 about | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 happen | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 happen | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 man | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 man | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 happen | nsubj |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 happen | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 happen | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 happen | advmod |
| 18 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My father | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destroy | to-infinitive · passive | My father not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | I | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not happen | would | a man | this nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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