Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 100
But the Rajput warriors laughed him to scorn, and defeated him, and kept safe their beauteous Lady of the Lotus.
Who acts: Rajput warriors · What happens: laugh, scorn, defeat, keep · To what, where: din
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 (Rajput warriors), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 laughed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warriors | det |
| 3 | Rajput | Rajput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 warriors | compound |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laughed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 scorn | mark |
| 8 | scorn | scorn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 laughed | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 defeated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 defeated | cc |
| 11 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 defeated | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kept | cc |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 defeated | parataxis |
| 16 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Lady | amod |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Lady | amod |
| 19 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl:agent |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Lotus | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Lotus | det |
| 22 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Lady | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the Rajput warriors | din | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scorn | to-infinitive | the Rajput warriors not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | defeat | past | the Rajput warriors not said here | din | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | participle | jewels's safe beauteous Lady of the Lotus obl:agent | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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