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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tent | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tent | amod |
| 5 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shared | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 shared | nsubj |
| 11 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shared | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 her | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 her | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 followers | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 followers | case |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 followers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gathered | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gathered | nsubj |
| 25 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 26 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gathered | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 thing | case |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 thing | det |
| 29 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 thing | amod |
| 30 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gathered | obl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 tulips | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 tulips | case |
| 33 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 thing | appos |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 grasses | cc |
| 35 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 tulips | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 animals | punct |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 animals | case |
| 38 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 tulips | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 birds | cc |
| 40 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 tulips | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 insects | cc |
| 42 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 tulips | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | defeat | defeat's own tent | spirit | to defeat's mother; as defeat's followers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient tent=Theme | ||
| 2 | share | past | defeat's mother | defeat's wanderings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gather | past | defeat | brightness | every smallest thing | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent brightness=Theme from thing=Source | |||
| 4 | wander | defeat | nom 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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