Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 39
Here also he married the lady whom he called “Maham”--“my Moon”--of whom we know only because of Baber’s great love for her.
Who acts: defeat, we, Baber · What happens: marry, call, know, love · To what, where: lady · 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, Baber), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 married | advmod |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 married | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obj |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 called | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lady | acl:relcl |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Maham | punct |
| 11 | Maham | Maham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Maham | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Moon | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Moon | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Moon | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 know | obl |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 love | advmod |
| 24 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 29 love | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 because | fixed |
| 26 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 love | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Baber | case |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 love | amod |
| 29 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 know | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | defeat | the lady | here | my Moon obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient | ||
| 2 | call | past | defeat | the lady | Maham xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient | |||
| 3 | know | present | we | because Baber's great love; for Baber; whom obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | love | Baber | nom love «feeling 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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