Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 99
And the mother of Shikhandi was full of a great gladness, that she had believed the word of the gods.
Who acts: mother · What happens: be, believe, word · To what, where: word, gods
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 (mother), 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 | _ | 7 full | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Shikhandi | case |
| 5 | Shikhandi | Shikhandi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | cop |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gladness | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gladness | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gladness | amod |
| 11 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 believed | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 believed | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 believed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 believed | aux |
| 16 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 full | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 believed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gods | det |
| 21 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 word | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the mother of Shikhandi | of a great gladness; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | past · perfect | mother | the word of the gods | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | word | the gods | nom word «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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