Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 60
Then a holy man said to Baber: “If some precious thing were given to God in exchange for Humayun, God might let him live.”
Who acts: holy man, God, Humayun · What happens: say, give, let, live · To what, where: Baber, precious thing, God, exchange, Humayun · 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 (holy man, God, Humayun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Baber | case |
| 7 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 let | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 exchange | case |
| 19 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Humayun | case |
| 21 | Humayun | Humayun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 exchange | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 let | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 let | aux |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 let | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a holy man | Baber | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to baber=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · passive | some precious thing | God | exchange for Humayun | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to god=Recipient | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | might | God | Humayun | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | infinitive | Humayun not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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