Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 42
The people of Hindustan were fighting among themselves, and asked Baber’s help.
Who acts: people, Baber · What happens: fight, ask, help · To what, where: help
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 (people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fighting | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Hindustan | case |
| 4 | Hindustan | Hindustan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fighting | aux |
| 6 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 themselves | case |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 fighting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fighting | conj |
| 12 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 help | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Baber | case |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · progressive | the people of Hindustan | among people | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the people of Hindustan not said here | Baber's help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | help | Baber | nom help «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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