Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 43
Of the great battle that Baber won on the field of Paniput near Delhi, there are many stories.
Who acts: great battle, many stories · What happens: win, be · To what, where: field
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 (great battle, many stories), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 battle | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 battle | amod |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 are | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 won | nsubj |
| 6 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 won | nsubj |
| 7 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 battle | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Paniput | case |
| 12 | Paniput | Paniput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 field | nmod |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 Delhi | case |
| 14 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Paniput | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 battle | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 are | expl |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stories | amod |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 are | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | the great battle | the field of Paniput near Delhi | Baber nsubj | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | does | present | many stories | there | of the great battle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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