Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 45
There are wonderful tales of the presents which he sent after this victory, to his family and people in Kabul--forgetting no one.
Who acts: wonderful tales, tale, presents · What happens: be, send, forget, tell · To what, where: presents, one · 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 (wonderful tales, tale, presents), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tales | amod |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 presents | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 presents | det |
| 7 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tales | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sent | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 presents | acl:relcl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 victory | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 victory | det |
| 13 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 family | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 family | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 people | cc |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 family | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Kabul | case |
| 21 | Kabul | Kabul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 people | nmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgetting | punct |
| 23 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tales | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forgetting | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | wonderful tales of the presents | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | tale | the presents | after this victory | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | forget | gerund | wonderful tales of the presents not said here | no one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell | the presents | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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