Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 98
So was fulfilled the promise of Shiva--“She shall be first a daughter: and then a son, Shikhandi, Maiden-Knight.”
Who acts: Shiva · What happens: fulfil, be, promise · To what, where: promise, Shiva
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 (Shiva), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fulfilled | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 3 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 promise | det |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fulfilled | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Shiva | case |
| 7 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | nmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 first | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 first | punct |
| 10 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 first | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 first | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 first | cop |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 promise | nmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 first | nsubj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 son | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 son | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 son | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 son | det |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fulfilled | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Shikhandi | punct |
| 22 | Shikhandi | Shikhandi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 son | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Maiden | punct |
| 24 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Shikhandi | conj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Knight | punct |
| 26 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Shikhandi | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 Shikhandi | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | past · passive | the promise of Shiva | a son parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | Shiva | a daughter nsubj; first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise | Shiva | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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