Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 72
Sher Khan, the Afghan, turned traitor, and the King was compelled to fly for his life.
What happens: compel, fly · To what, where: King, Afghan turned traitor
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: 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 | Sher | Sher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 traitor | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sher | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 traitor | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 traitor | det |
| 5 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 traitor | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Afghan | punct |
| 7 | turned | turned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 traitor | amod |
| 8 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 compelled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 compelled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 compelled | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 compelled | aux:pass |
| 14 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 traitor | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fly | mark |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 compelled | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fly | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 traitor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compel | past · passive | the King | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | for king's life | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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