Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 31

Driven away from one of his early attempts to take Delhi, he has a race with two of his officers; and he writes of the first meal which he ate in hiding as of a royal banquet--“such peace and plenty, nice fat meat, bread of fine flour well baked, sweet melons, excellent grapes”.

Who acts: defeat, officers · What happens: drive away, take, have, write, eat, hide · To what, where: Delhi, race, such peace, first meal

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 (defeat, officers), 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	Driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 has	advcl
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Driven	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Driven	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 attempts	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 attempts	nmod:poss
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 attempts	amod
8	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 attempts	acl
11	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 race	det
16	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 two	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 race	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 officers	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 officers	nmod:poss
21	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 race	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 writes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 writes	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 writes	nsubj
25	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 has	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 meal	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 meal	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 meal	amod
29	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 writes	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 ate	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ate	nsubj
32	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 meal	acl:relcl
33	in	in	SCONJ	_	34 hiding	mark
34	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 ate	advcl
35	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	39 banquet	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 banquet	det
38	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 banquet	amod
39	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hiding	obl
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 peace	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 peace	punct
42	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 peace	amod
43	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 writes	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 plenty	cc
45	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 peace	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 meat	punct
47	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 meat	amod
48	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 meat	compound
49	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 peace	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 bread	punct
51	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 meat	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 flour	case
53	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 flour	amod
54	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 meat	nmod
55	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	56 baked	advmod
56	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 meat	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 melons	punct
58	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 melons	amod
59	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 peace	appos
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 grapes	punct
61	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 grapes	amod
62	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 melons	conj
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	59 melons	punct
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	drive away	participle	defeat not said here			from one of defeat's early attempts; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from one=Trajectory
2	take	to-infinitive	defeat not said here		Delhi		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument delhi=Destination
3	have	present	defeat	a race of defeat's officers		with two	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient
4	write	present	defeat	such peace and plenty and nice fat meat of fine flour and bread		of the first meal	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
5	eat	past	defeat	the first meal			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
6	hide	gerund	defeat not said here			as a royal banquet	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bake in a quote	participle	defeat not said here			well property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	attempt		defeat				nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	race		defeat's officers				nom race «event intransitive»: of=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 31