Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
Ladies and nurses of the zenana, officers, clerks, traders, even “all who pray for me”, were remembered; and so great was the list, that it was three days before the presents were divided.
Who acts: list · What happens: pray, remember, be, divide · To what, where: Ladies, great list, three days, presents · 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 (list), 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 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 remembered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 nurses | cc |
| 3 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ladies | conj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 zenana | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 zenana | det |
| 6 | zenana | zenana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nurses | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 officers | punct |
| 8 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ladies | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clerks | punct |
| 10 | clerks | clerk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ladies | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 traders | punct |
| 12 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ladies | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 all | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 all | advmod |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 all | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Ladies | conj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 pray | nsubj |
| 18 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 all | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 pray | obl |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 all | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ladies | punct |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 remembered | aux:pass |
| 24 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 list | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 great | cc |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 great | advmod |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 list | amod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 list | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 list | det |
| 31 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remembered | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 days | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 days | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 days | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 days | cop |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 days | nummod |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 remembered | obl |
| 38 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 42 divided | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 presents | det |
| 40 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 divided | aux:pass |
| 42 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 remembered | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | present | for the people of Hindustan = people; who nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remember | past · passive | Ladies and nurses of the zenana and officers and clerks and traders | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the great list | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | list | three days | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | divide | past · passive | the presents | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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