Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 65
And he went away and prayed and fasted, saying many times: “I have borne it away.
Who acts: life · What happens: go away, pray, fast, say, bear away · To what, where: bed · 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 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 prayed | cc |
| 6 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fasted | cc |
| 8 | fasted | fast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fasted | advcl |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saying | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 borne | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 borne | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 borne | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 borne | aux |
| 17 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 borne | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 borne | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | life | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pray | past | life not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | fast | past | life not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | life not said here | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bear away in a quote | present · perfect | life | bed | away property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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