Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 44
“Battle was joined at the time of early morning prayers”; and by midday Baber the Tiger was lord of Delhi and Agra.
What happens: join, be · To what, where: Battle, Baber lord
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 joined | punct |
| 2 | Battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joined | aux:pass |
| 4 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joined | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 prayers | case |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prayers | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prayers | compound |
| 11 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 time | nmod |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 prayers | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lord | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lord | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 midday | case |
| 16 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lord | obl |
| 17 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lord | compound |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Tiger | det |
| 19 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Baber | appos |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lord | cop |
| 21 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joined | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Delhi | case |
| 23 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lord | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Agra | cc |
| 25 | Agra | Agra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Delhi | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join in a quote | past · passive | Battle | time | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Baber lord | by midday; of Delhi and Agra | 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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