Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 13
And perhaps she might some day have won it back, but for a sad thing that befell her.
Who acts: Delhi, sad thing · What happens: win back, befall · To what, where: kingdom, Delhi
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 (Delhi, sad thing), 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 | _ | 8 won | cc |
| 2 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 won | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 won | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 won | aux |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 won | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 won | aux |
| 8 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 won | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 won | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thing | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 thing | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 thing | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 won | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 befell | nsubj |
| 18 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 befell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win back | might · perfect | Delhi | kingdom | day | a sad thing obj; perhaps property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary thing=Theme | ||
| 2 | befall | past | a sad thing | Delhi | tree rules |
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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