Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 29
Success could not spoil him, and defeat could not make him hang his head.
Who acts: Success, defeat, thing · What happens: not spoil, not make, not hang · To what, where: thing, head
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 (Success, defeat, thing), 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 | Success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoil | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoil | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 spoil | advmod |
| 4 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoil | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 8 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 make | advmod |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoil | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hang | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spoil | could | Success | thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make | could | defeat | thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not hang | infinitive | thing not said here | thing's head | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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