Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 107
Thinking him to be also a knight and bound by knightly courtesies and honour, he accompanied him alone outside the gates of the city, to set him on his way.
Who acts: Bhimsi · What happens: think, be, bind, accompany, set · To what, where: Bhimsi, knight, enemy, gates, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bhimsi), 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 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 accompanied | advcl |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Thinking | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 knight | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knight | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 knight | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thinking | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bound | cc |
| 9 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knight | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 courtesies | case |
| 11 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 courtesies | amod |
| 12 | courtesies | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bound | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 honour | cc |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 courtesies | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thinking | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 accompanied | nsubj |
| 17 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 accompanied | obj |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 accompanied | advmod |
| 20 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 22 gates | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gates | det |
| 22 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 accompanied | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gates | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 set | mark |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 accompanied | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 way | nmod:poss |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | Bhimsi not said here | Bhimsi | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a knight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bind | participle | by knightly courtesies and honour | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | accompany | past | Bhimsi | enemy | the gates of the city | alone property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme outside gate=Destination | ||
| 5 | set | to-infinitive | Bhimsi not said here | Bhimsi | Bhimsi's way | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on way=Destination |
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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