Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 10

They could not forgive her that, being a woman, she came before them with face unveiled; that, being a woman, she did successfully the work of a man, and asked no woman’s reward.

Who acts: people, woman, that, Delhi, man · What happens: not forgive, be, come, unveil, do, ask · To what, where: Delhi, woman, face, work, reward

This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, woman, that, Delhi), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgive	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forgive	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 forgive	advmod
4	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgive	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woman	punct
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 woman	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woman	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgive	advcl
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 face	case
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	unveiled	unveil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 face	acl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 woman	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 woman	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 woman	punct
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 woman	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgive	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 did	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 woman	parataxis
28	successfully	successfully	ADV	_	30 work	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 work	det
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 did	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 man	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 work	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 asked	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 asked	cc
36	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 did	conj
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 woman	det
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 reward	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 woman	case
40	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 asked	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not forgive	could	people	Delhi			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is a	gerund		a woman			tree rules
3	come	past	a woman		before people	with face; Delhi nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
4	unveil	participle		face not said here			tree rules
5	is a	gerund	that	a woman			tree rules
6	do	past	Delhi	the work of a man			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
7	ask speech: ask	past	Delhi not said here	no woman's reward			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reward=Recipient
8	work		a man				nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent
9	reward		no woman				nom reward «event 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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 10