Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 51
Walking round his outposts, however, before the Rajput battle, the thought came to Baber that it would be good to mend his life now in this matter, so that he might have something to give in penitence to God.
Who acts: thought, it, tale · What happens: walk, come, be, mend, have, give · To what, where: outposts, Baber, life, matter, something, penitence
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 (thought, it, tale), 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 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 outposts | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 outposts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | outposts | outpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Walking | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Walking | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 battle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 battle | det |
| 10 | Rajput | Rajput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 battle | compound |
| 11 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 battle | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thought | det |
| 14 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 good | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Baber | case |
| 17 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 good | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 good | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 good | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 good | cop |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 mend | mark |
| 24 | mend | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 good | csubj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mend | obj |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 mend | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 matter | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 matter | det |
| 30 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mend | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 have | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 mend | conj |
| 37 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 have | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 give | mark |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 something | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 penitence | case |
| 41 | penitence | penitence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 give | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 God | case |
| 43 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 penitence | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | the thought not said here | tale's outposts | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round outpost=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the thought | Baber | before the Rajput battle | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to baber=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | is | would | it | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mend | to-infinitive | tale's life | this matter | now | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | might | tale | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | tale not said here | penitence | God | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent penitence=Theme to god=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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