Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 96

And the King of Wealth, coming that way, found Sthuna the woman sitting alone in the palace: and between laughter and disgust--“You shall remain a woman,” he said.

Who acts: King, woman, You · What happens: come, find, sit, remain, say · To what, where: way, Sthuna, palace, woman · 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 (King, woman, You), 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	_	11 found	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Wealth	case
5	Wealth	Wealth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coming	punct
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 King	parataxis
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 King	punct
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 said	advcl
12	Sthuna	Sthuna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 woman	acl
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 sitting	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 laughter	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laughter	cc
22	between	between	ADP	_	23 laughter	case
23	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 disgust	cc
25	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laughter	conj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 remain	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 remain	punct
28	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 remain	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 remain	aux
30	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 found	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 woman	det
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 remain	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 remain	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 said	nsubj
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	gerund		that way			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	the King of Wealth	Sthuna		between laughter and disgust; the woman obj	tree rules
3	sit	gerund	the woman not said here		the palace	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location
4	remain in a quote	shall	You	a woman			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	past	King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 96