Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 62
But Baber, who more than anyone we know had loved being alive, said: “No, that is not the most precious thing I have to give.
Who acts: we, that, I · What happens: know, love, be, say, not be, have · To what, where: Baber, precious thing · 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 (we, that, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 loved | cc |
| 2 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 more | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 more | nsubj |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Baber | conj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 more | obl |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 loved | aux |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | advcl |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 alive | cop |
| 13 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 loved | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 18 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 have | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thing | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 thing | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 thing | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 thing | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thing | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 precious | advmod |
| 25 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thing | amod |
| 26 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obl |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 have | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | love | past · perfect · passive | Baber | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | gerund | alive property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | that | the precious thing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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