Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 117
But the warriors of Chittore had prepared a surprise for Ala-ud-din, the traitor.
What happens: prepare · To what, where: warriors
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 prepared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 warriors | det |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Chittore | case |
| 5 | Chittore | Chittore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warriors | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prepared | aux |
| 7 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 surprise | det |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prepared | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 din | case |
| 11 | Ala | Ala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 din | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ala | punct |
| 13 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 din | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ud | punct |
| 15 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prepared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 traitor | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 traitor | det |
| 18 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 din | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the warriors of Chittore | for Ala ud din and the traitor; a surprise obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary surprise=Product |
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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