Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 18
He knew that she was a woman; and no more afraid of her, he killed her and buried her there, in a corner of a field outside the walls of that Delhi which she had ruled.
Who acts: peasant, Delhi · What happens: know, be, kill, bury, rule · To what, where: woman, Delhi, corner, walls · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (peasant, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 woman | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 woman | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 afraid | cc |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 afraid | amod |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | nsubj |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buried | cc |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 buried | obj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 buried | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 corner | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 corner | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 corner | det |
| 26 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buried | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 field | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 field | det |
| 29 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 corner | nmod |
| 30 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 32 walls | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 walls | det |
| 32 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 corner | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Delhi | case |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 Delhi | det |
| 35 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 walls | nmod |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ruled | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ruled | aux |
| 39 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 walls | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | peasant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Delhi | a woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | peasant | Delhi | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bury | past | peasant not said here | Delhi | a corner of a field outside the walls of that Delhi; there | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in corner=Destination | |||
| 5 | rule | past · perfect · passive | the walls of that Delhi | Delhi nsubj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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