Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 76
The King did live, and got back his kingdom; and the water-carrier came to claim his reward.
Who acts: King, water carrier · What happens: do, live, get back, come, claim, reward · To what, where: kingdom, reward
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, water carrier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carrier | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carrier | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 water | punct |
| 16 | carrier | carrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 claim | mark |
| 19 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 reward | nmod:poss |
| 21 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 claim | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | infinitive | the King not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get back | past | the King not said here | king's kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the water carrier | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | the water carrier not said here | king's reward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reward=Topic | ||||
| 6 | reward | king | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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