Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 35
They had to bear thirst and hunger, pain and poverty; but the joyous spirit of the Tiger-boy carried them through all.
Who acts: followers, joyous spirit · What happens: have, bear, carry · To what, where: thirst, followers, all
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 (followers, joyous 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bear | mark |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hunger | cc |
| 7 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thirst | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pain | punct |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thirst | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 poverty | cc |
| 11 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pain | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spirit | det |
| 15 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spirit | amod |
| 16 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 boy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 19 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 boy | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tiger | punct |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spirit | nmod |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 carried | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | followers = follower | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | followers = follower not said here | thirst and hunger and pain and poverty | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | the joyous spirit of the Tiger boy | followers = follower | all | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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