Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 106
Ala-ud-din pretended to be very grateful, and the courteous knight Bhimsi was sorry for the enemy whom he had defeated.
Who acts: courteous knight · What happens: pretend, be, defeat · To what, where: enemy
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 (courteous knight), 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 | Ala | ala | ADP | _ | 5 din | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ala | punct |
| 3 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 din | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ud | punct |
| 5 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pretended | obl |
| 6 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 grateful | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grateful | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 grateful | advmod |
| 10 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pretended | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sorry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sorry | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 knight | det |
| 14 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knight | amod |
| 15 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sorry | nsubj |
| 16 | Bhimsi | Bhimsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 knight | appos |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sorry | cop |
| 18 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pretended | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 enemy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 enemy | det |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sorry | obl |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 defeated | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 defeated | aux |
| 25 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 enemy | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | ala ud din | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | grateful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the courteous knight | for the enemy; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | defeat | past · perfect · passive | the enemy | Bhimsi nsubj | tree rules |
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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