Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 52
And he sent immediately for his great goblets of gold and silver studded with precious stones; and there on the battle-field he had them broken to pieces and given to the poor, vowing that he would never drink wine again.
Who acts: tale, stones · What happens: send, stud, have, break, give, vow · To what, where: battle field, silver, stones, poor, wine
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 (tale, stones), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 goblets | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 goblets | nmod:poss |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goblets | amod |
| 8 | goblets | goblet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goblets | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 silver | cc |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | conj |
| 13 | studded | stud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 silver | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 stones | case |
| 15 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stones | amod |
| 16 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 studded | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 there | cc |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 field | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 field | det |
| 22 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 field | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 battle | punct |
| 24 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 had | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 pieces | case |
| 30 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 broken | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 given | cc |
| 32 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 broken | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 poor | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 poor | det |
| 35 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 given | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 vowing | punct |
| 37 | vowing | vow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 poor | advcl |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 drink | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 drink | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 drink | aux |
| 41 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 42 drink | advmod |
| 42 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 vowing | advcl |
| 43 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 drink | obj |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 drink | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | tale | the battle field; there | for tale's great goblets of gold and silver; immediately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stud | participle | silver not said here | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | tale | stones = stone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | stones = stone not said here | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to piece=Result | ||||
| 5 | give | participle | stones = stone not said here | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to poor=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | vow | gerund | stones = stone not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not drink | would | tale | wine | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
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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