Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 32
Again: “I could not, on account of one or two defeats, sit down and look idly around me”, he tells us; and we find him getting to work again immediately.
Who acts: defeat, we · What happens: sit down, look, tell, find, get, work · To what, where: us, defeat, one defeats · 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 (defeat, we), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Again | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 could | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Again | advcl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 could | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 account | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 account | case |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 could | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 defeats | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 defeats | nummod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 two | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 one | conj |
| 14 | defeats | defeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 account | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sit | punct |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 defeats | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 sit | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 look | cc |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 sit | conj |
| 20 | idly | idly | ADV | _ | 19 look | advmod |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 look | obl |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sit | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tells | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tells | nsubj |
| 26 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sit | parataxis |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tells | iobj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 find | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 find | cc |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 find | nsubj |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 tells | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | obj |
| 33 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 find | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 work | mark |
| 35 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 getting | xcomp |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 work | advmod |
| 37 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 33 getting | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Again | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | around defeat; idly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | defeat | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find | present | we | defeat | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | gerund | defeat not said here | immediately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | work | to-infinitive | defeat not said here | again | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | account in a quote | one defeats | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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