Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 94
And the Yakshas was moved with pity: and gave her his manhood and his mighty form, till she should fulfil her object.
Who acts: Shikhandi, Yakshas · What happens: move, give, fulfil, form · To what, where: Yakshas, manhood, Shikhandi, object
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, Yakshas), 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 moved | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Yakshas | det |
| 3 | Yakshas | Yakshas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | aux:pass |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pity | case |
| 7 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 manhood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 form | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 form | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 form | amod |
| 17 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 manhood | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fulfil | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 fulfil | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fulfil | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fulfil | aux |
| 22 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 object | nmod:poss |
| 24 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fulfil | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | the Yakshas | with pity | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Yakshas's manhood and Yakshas's mighty form | Shikhandi | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient manhood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | should | Shikhandi | Shikhandi's object | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | form | Yakshas | nom form «communication 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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