Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 115
And now the Lotus-Lady was at the prisoner’s tent of her lord; and now she had bid him farewell, and the long line of palanquins had turned once more towards Chittore.
Who acts: Lotus Lady, lady · What happens: be, bid, turn · To what, where: tent, din, long line, Chittore
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 (Lotus Lady, lady), 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 | _ | 12 tent | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 tent | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lady | det |
| 4 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lady | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lotus | punct |
| 6 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tent | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tent | cop |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 tent | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prisoner | det |
| 10 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 prisoner | case |
| 12 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lord | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lord | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tent | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bid | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 bid | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bid | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bid | aux |
| 21 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 tent | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bid | obj |
| 23 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 21 bid | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 turned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 turned | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 line | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 line | amod |
| 28 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 palanquins | case |
| 30 | palanquins | palanquin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 line | nmod |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 turned | aux |
| 32 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bid | conj |
| 33 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 34 more | advmod |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 turned | advmod |
| 35 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 36 Chittore | case |
| 36 | Chittore | Chittore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Lotus Lady | the prisoner's tent | now | of lady's lord; the prisoner nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 2 | bid | past · perfect | lady | din | now | farewell property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | turn | past · perfect · passive | the long line of palanquins | Chittore | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme towards chittore=Trajectory |
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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