Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 15
Passing through a field, she saw an old peasant at work, and begged for some food, for she was starving.
Who acts: Delhi · What happens: pass, see, beg, starve · To what, where: field, old peasant, work
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), 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 | Passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | advcl |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 field | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 field | det |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Passing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Passing | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 peasant | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 peasant | amod |
| 10 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peasant | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 begged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 begged | cc |
| 15 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 food | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 food | det |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begged | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 starving | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 starving | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 starving | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 starving | aux |
| 23 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 begged | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | Delhi not said here | a field | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through field=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Delhi | a old peasant | work | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peasant=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | participle | Delhi not said here | for some food | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for food=Topic | ||||
| 4 | starve | past · progressive | 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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