Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 38
Kabul fell to him when he was eighteen; and here for ten years he lived peacefully, caring for his mother and grandmother, his aunts and sisters, and all his people who had been faithful to him.
Who acts: Kabul, defeat, people · What happens: fall, be, live, care · To what, where: defeat, eighteen
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 (Kabul, defeat, people), 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 | Kabul | Kabul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 eighteen | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 eighteen | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eighteen | cop |
| 8 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 fell | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 here | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 here | cc |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 fell | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 here | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 17 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 16 lived | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 caring | punct |
| 19 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 lived | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 mother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caring | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grandmother | cc |
| 24 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mother | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 aunts | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 aunts | nmod:poss |
| 27 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mother | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sisters | cc |
| 29 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 aunts | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 faithful | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 faithful | cc |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 people | det:predet |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 people | nmod:poss |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 faithful | nsubj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 faithful | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 faithful | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 faithful | cop |
| 38 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 faithful | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Kabul | defeat | here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot | |||
| 2 | is a | past | defeat | eighteen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | defeat | peacefully property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | care | gerund | defeat not said here | for defeat's mother and grandmother and defeat's aunts and sisters | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for mother=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | defeat's people | defeat | who nsubj; faithful property | tree rules |
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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