Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

And one of the things which we know that she gave to her people was that same great heart of a woman and a mother, which poor Raziya believed that she must slay.

Who acts: we, Queen, one, poor Raziya · What happens: know, give, be, believe, slay · To what, where: things, people, same great heart, woman · 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 (we, Queen, one, poor Raziya), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 heart	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 heart	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 things	det
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 know	obj
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 gave	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 people	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 people	nmod:poss
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heart	cop
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 heart	nsubj
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heart	amod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heart	amod
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 woman	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heart	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mother	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mother	det
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 woman	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 believed	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 believed	obj
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Raziya	amod
29	Raziya	Raziya	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 believed	nsubj
30	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 woman	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 slay	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 slay	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 slay	aux
34	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 believed	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 heart	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	we	the things			tree rules
2	give	past	Queen		Queen's people		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient
3	is a	past	one of the things	same great heart		of a woman and a mother; that nsubj	tree rules
4	believe	past	poor Raziya	a woman and a mother			tree rules
5	slay	must	Queen				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 23