Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 28
And the most wonderful thing we know about him is his great spirit, which nothing could subdue.
Who acts: we, wonderful thing, great spirit · What happens: know, be, subdue · To what, where: wonderful thing, great spirit
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, wonderful thing, great spirit), 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 | _ | 13 spirit | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 wonderful | advmod |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spirit | nsubj |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 spirit | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spirit | amod |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 subdue | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 subdue | nsubj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 subdue | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 subdue | aux |
| 18 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spirit | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | we | the wonderful thing not said here | about thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the wonderful thing | thing's great spirit | thing nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | subdue | could | thing's great spirit | nothing nsubj | vn subjugate-42.3 «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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