Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 64
And he walked three times round Humayun’s bed, saying: “Oh, God! if a life may be given for a life, I, who am Baber, I give my life and my being for Humayun.”
Who acts: life · What happens: walk, say, give, be · To what, where: God, life, Baber · 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 (life), 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 walked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 7 | Humayun | Humayun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Humayun | case |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | advcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 God | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 God | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 God | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oh | punct |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 God | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 given | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 life | det |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 saying | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 life | det |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Baber | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 Baber | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Baber | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 Baber | nsubj |
| 31 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 Baber | cop |
| 32 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 give | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 give | nsubj |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 Baber | conj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Humayun | cc |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 Humayun | nmod:poss |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 Humayun | cop |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 Humayun | case |
| 42 | Humayun | Humayun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Baber | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 Baber | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | life | time | round Humayun's bed | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | gerund | life not said here | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent god=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | may · passive | a life | for a life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for life=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | life | Baber and my Humayun | who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give in a quote | present | life | my life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | gerund | life not said here | for my Humayun; my nmod:poss | 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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