Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 61
And the holy man talked of the Kohinor, which Baber had got from Gwalior, and which is now in the crown of our King-Emperor of Britain.
Who acts: holy man, Baber · What happens: talk, get, be · To what, where: Kohinor, Gwalior, crown
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, Baber), 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 | _ | 5 talked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talked | nsubj |
| 5 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kohinor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Kohinor | det |
| 8 | Kohinor | Kohinor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 talked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 got | obl |
| 11 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 Kohinor | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Gwalior | case |
| 15 | Gwalior | Gwalior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 crown | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 crown | cc |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 crown | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 crown | cop |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 crown | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 crown | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crown | det |
| 23 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talked | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Emperor | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Emperor | nmod:poss |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Emperor | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 King | punct |
| 28 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 crown | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Britain | case |
| 30 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Emperor | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the holy man | of the Kohinor | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | Baber | the Kohinor | Gwalior | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from gwalior=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | the crown | now | of our King Emperor of Britain; which nsubj | tree rules |
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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