Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 73
But there was no escape except across a river in flood; and his horse sank exhausted in mid-stream.
Who acts: escape · What happens: be, exhaust · To what, where: horse, mid-stream
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 (escape), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 escape | det |
| 5 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 escape | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 flood | case |
| 11 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 river | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 exhausted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 exhausted | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 17 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mid-stream | case |
| 19 | mid-stream | mid-stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 exhausted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no escape except a river in flood | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exhaust | past · passive | escape's horse | mid-stream | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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