Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 53
That night and the next, three hundred of his nobles did likewise, pouring upon the ground the wine which they had brought with them.
Who acts: nobles · What happens: do, pour, bring · To what, where: three hundred, 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 (nobles), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 next | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 next | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 night | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hundred | punct |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hundred | compound |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 did | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 nobles | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 12 did | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pouring | punct |
| 15 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 did | advcl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pouring | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wine | det |
| 20 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pouring | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | aux |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 wine | acl:relcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tale's nobles | three hundred | night | likewise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | pour | gerund | tale's nobles not said here | the wine | upon the ground | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | |||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the wine | with nobles = noble | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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