Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 5
She loved justice and mercy, and she gave both to her people.
Who acts: Delhi · What happens: love, give · To what, where: justice, both, people
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 (Delhi), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mercy | cc |
| 5 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 justice | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | conj |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod:poss |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Delhi | justice and mercy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer justice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Delhi | both | Delhi's people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent both=Theme to people=Recipient |
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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