Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 75
“I have nothing to give thee now,” said the King; “but come to me in Agra, and if I live thou shalt sit on my throne for a whole day.”
Who acts: King, thou · What happens: have, give, say, come, live, sit · To what, where: nothing, thee, King, Agra, throne · 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 (King, thou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 give | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 come | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Agra | case |
| 21 | Agra | Agra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sit | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sit | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 live | nsubj |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sit | advcl |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 sit | nsubj |
| 28 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 29 sit | aux |
| 29 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 throne | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 throne | nmod:poss |
| 32 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sit | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 day | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sit | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the King = king | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | the King = king not said here | nothing not said here | thee | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | the King = king | Agra | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | live a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the King = king | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sit in a quote | shall | thou | my throne | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location |
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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