Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 109
Only in exchange for the Lotus-Lady herself, he declared, would he release the Rajput Prince-Regent.
Who acts: Bhimsi · What happens: declare, release · To what, where: exchange, Prince Regent · 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 exchange | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 exchange | case |
| 3 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declared | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Lady | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lady | det |
| 6 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lady | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lotus | punct |
| 8 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 exchange | nmod |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 Lady | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 exchange | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 declared | nsubj |
| 12 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 release | punct |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 release | aux |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 release | nsubj |
| 16 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 declared | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Regent | det |
| 18 | Rajput | Rajput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Regent | nsubj |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Regent | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Regent | punct |
| 21 | Regent | Regent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 release | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Bhimsi | exchange for the Lotus Lady | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | release | would | Bhimsi | the Prince Regent Rajput | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer regent=Source |
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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