Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 68
Then Baber called his nobles together, and charged them to serve Humayun faithfully, for he himself would rule no more.
Who acts: Baber, Humayun · What happens: call, charge, serve, rule · To what, where: nobles, Humayun, more · 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 (Baber, 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 | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | Baber | Baber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 charged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 charged | cc |
| 9 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 charged | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 serve | mark |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 charged | advcl |
| 13 | Humayun | Humayun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 serve | obj |
| 14 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 12 serve | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rule | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 rule | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rule | nsubj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 rule | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 rule | aux |
| 20 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 serve | conj |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 rule | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Baber | Humayun's nobles | then | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent noble=Recipient | ||
| 2 | charge | past | Baber not said here | nobles = noble | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | Baber not said here | Humayun | faithfully property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humayun=Attribute | |||
| 4 | rule | would | Humayun | more | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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