Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 71
There is one story told of Humayun, the Moon-Lady’s son, which is worth remembering.
Who acts: one story, son · What happens: be, tell, remember · To what, where: one story · 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 (one story, son), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 story | nummod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Humayun | case |
| 7 | Humayun | Humayun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl:agent |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lady | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lady | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Moon | punct |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Lady | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Humayun | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worth | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 worth | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 worth | cop |
| 18 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | acl:relcl |
| 19 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 worth | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one story | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | one story not said here | Humayun obl:agent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Moon Lady's son | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remember | gerund | the Moon Lady's son not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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