Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 16
The man gave her a piece of bread, which she ate gladly; and then being worn out, she tied her horse to a tree and lay down in the field to take a short rest.
Who acts: man, Delhi · What happens: give, eat, wear out, tie, lay down, take · To what, where: piece, Delhi, bread, horse, field, short rest
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 (man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bread | case |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ate | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ate | nsubj |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bread | acl:relcl |
| 13 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 12 ate | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 worn | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 worn | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 worn | advmod |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 worn | aux:pass |
| 18 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 worn | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tied | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tied | nsubj |
| 22 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 worn | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horse | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tied | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tied | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lay | cc |
| 29 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tied | conj |
| 30 | down | down | ADV | _ | 29 lay | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 field | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 field | det |
| 33 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lay | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 lay | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 rest | det |
| 37 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 rest | amod |
| 38 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the man | a piece of bread | Delhi | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | past | Delhi | bread | gladly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 3 | wear out | gerund · passive | then | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» | |||||
| 4 | tie | past | Delhi | Delhi's horse | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | lay down | infinitive | Delhi not said here | the field | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in field=Destination | |||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | Delhi not said here | a short rest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
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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