Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 26
But like the boys in fairy tales, he had wicked uncles, who made trouble for him; and before he was seventeen years old, he had won and lost two of his kingdoms.
Who acts: king, wicked uncles · What happens: have, make, be, win, lose · To what, where: wicked uncles, trouble, two
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 (king, wicked uncles), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 boys | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tales | case |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tales | compound |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 boys | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boys | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 uncles | amod |
| 12 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 uncles | acl:relcl |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 won | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 won | cc |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 old | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 old | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 old | cop |
| 24 | seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 old | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 won | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 old | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 won | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 won | aux |
| 30 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 had | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 lost | cc |
| 32 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 won | conj |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 lost | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kingdoms | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 kingdoms | nmod:poss |
| 36 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 two | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | wicked uncles | like the boys in fairy tales | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | wicked uncles | trouble | for king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trouble=Product for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is | past | king | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | win | past · perfect | king | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lose | participle | king not said here | two of king's kingdoms | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality |
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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