Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 17
She wore the dress of a man; but the peasant saw her jewels gleaming, as she slept unprotected in that lonely spot.
Who acts: Delhi, peasant, jewels · What happens: wear, see, gleam, sleep · To what, where: dress, jewels, lonely spot
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, peasant, jewels), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dress | det |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dress | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 14 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 jewels | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slept | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 slept | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slept | nsubj |
| 19 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 20 | unprotected | unprotected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slept | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 spot | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 spot | det |
| 23 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spot | amod |
| 24 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slept | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Delhi | the dress of a man | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the peasant | Delhi's jewels | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jewel=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gleam | gerund | Delhi's jewels not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep | past | Delhi | that lonely spot | unprotected property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=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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