Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 103
Therefore before I go, let me look, I pray, but for one minute on the beauty of which I have heard so much.
Who acts: I, me · What happens: go, let, look, pray, hear · To what, where: me
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 (I, me), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pray | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pray | nsubj |
| 11 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 go | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 minute | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 minute | nummod |
| 16 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 but | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 beauty | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beauty | det |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 minute | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 heard | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 heard | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | I | therefore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | I not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | me not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | hear | present · perfect | I | of the beauty | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of which=Stimulus |
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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