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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

He gave his own tent to his mother, who shared his wanderings; and for her, as for his followers, he gathered brightness from every smallest thing--from tulips and grasses, from animals and birds and insects.

Who acts: defeat, mother · What happens: give, share, gather, wander · To what, where: own tent, spirit, wanderings, brightness, smallest thing

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, mother), 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

nsubjnmod:possamodobjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctcccaseiobjpunctcasefixednmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctcaseapposccconjpunctcaseconjccconjccconjpunctrootHePRONgaveVERBhisPRONownADJtentNOUNtoADPhisPRONmotherNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONsharedVERBhisPRONwanderingsNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJforADPherPRON,PUNCTasADPforADPhisPRONfollowersNOUN,PUNCThePRONgatheredVERBbrightnessNOUNfromADPeveryDETsmallestADJthingNOUN--PUNCTfromADPtulipsNOUNandCCONJgrassesNOUN,PUNCTfromADPanimalsNOUNandCCONJbirdsNOUNandCCONJinsectsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 gavensubj
2gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 tentnmod:poss
4ownownADJDegree=Pos5 tentamod
5tenttentNOUNNumber=Sing2 gaveobj
6totoADP_8 mothercase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 mothernmod:poss
8mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing2 gaveobl
9,,PUNCT_11 sharedpunct
10whowhoPRONPronType=Rel11 sharednsubj
11sharedshareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 motheracl:relcl
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 wanderingsnmod:poss
13wanderingswanderingNOUNNumber=Plur11 sharedobj
14;;PUNCT_17 herpunct
15andandCCONJ_17 hercc
16forforADP_17 hercase
17hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 gaveiobj
18,,PUNCT_22 followerspunct
19asasADPExtPos=ADP22 followerscase
20forforADP_19 asfixed
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 followersnmod:poss
22followersfollowerNOUNNumber=Plur2 gaveobl
23,,PUNCT_25 gatheredpunct
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 gatherednsubj
25gatheredgatherVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 gaveconj
26brightnessbrightnessNOUNNumber=Sing25 gatheredobj
27fromfromADP_30 thingcase
28everyeveryDETPronType=Tot30 thingdet
29smallestsmallADJDegree=Sup30 thingamod
30thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing25 gatheredobl
31----PUNCT_33 tulipspunct
32fromfromADP_33 tulipscase
33tulipstulipNOUNNumber=Plur30 thingappos
34andandCCONJ_35 grassescc
35grassesgrassNOUNNumber=Plur33 tulipsconj
36,,PUNCT_38 animalspunct
37fromfromADP_38 animalscase
38animalsanimalNOUNNumber=Plur33 tulipsconj
39andandCCONJ_40 birdscc
40birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur33 tulipsconj
41andandCCONJ_42 insectscc
42insectsinsectNOUNNumber=Plur33 tulipsconj
43..PUNCT_2 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepastdefeatdefeat's own tentspiritto defeat's mother; as defeat's followersvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient tent=Theme
2sharepastdefeat's motherdefeat's wanderingstree rules
3gatherpastdefeatbrightnessevery smallest thingvn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent brightness=Theme from thing=Source
4wanderdefeatnom wandering «act transitive»: poss=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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