Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 11
And so, though they took her love and protection for so long that they forgot the cruelty of her brother who had reigned before, they turned against her in the end and dethroned her, and put her in prison.
Who acts: people, brother, Delhi · What happens: take, forget, reign, turn, dethrone, put · To what, where: love, cruelty, end, Delhi, prison
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 (people, brother, Delhi), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 took | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 protection | cc |
| 10 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 long | case |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 took | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 forgot | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forgot | nsubj |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cruelty | det |
| 18 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 brother | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cruelty | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 reigned | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 reigned | aux |
| 24 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 brother | acl:relcl |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 reigned | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 turned | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 turned | nsubj |
| 28 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 29 | against | against | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 turned | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 end | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 end | det |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turned | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dethroned | cc |
| 35 | dethroned | dethrone | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 turned | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dethroned | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 put | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 put | cc |
| 39 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 put | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 prison | case |
| 42 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 put | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | people | Delhi's love and protection | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent love=Theme for long=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | people | the cruelty of Delhi's brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reign | past · perfect | Delhi's brother | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | people | in the end | against Delhi | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme against she=Source in end=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | dethrone | past | people not said here | Delhi | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put | past | people not said here | Delhi | prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in prison=Destination | |||
| 7 | love | Delhi | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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