Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
In the battle which she waged she was defeated, and fled alone to the jungles.
What happens: wage, defeat, flee · To what, where: battle, Delhi, jungles
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waged | obl |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 waged | nsubj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 waged | nsubj |
| 6 | waged | wage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 defeated | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 defeated | aux:pass |
| 9 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 waged | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fled | cc |
| 12 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waged | conj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 fled | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 jungles | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jungles | det |
| 16 | jungles | jungle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wage | past | the battle | which nsubj; Delhi nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | defeat | past · passive | Delhi | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | the jungles | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial_Location |
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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