Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 84

And the sound of the people’s crying reached the ears of Rana Mal’s old mother, who came to her son’s house weeping, with unbound hair, to plead for the people.

Who acts: old mother, son · What happens: cry, reach, come, plead, weep · To what, where: ears, house weeping

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 (old mother, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 ’s	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ’s	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sound	nmod
7	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ’s	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ears	det
11	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reached	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 mother	case
13	Rana	Rana	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Mal	compound
14	Mal	Mal	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 mother	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Mal	case
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mother	amod
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ears	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mother	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	26 weeping	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 son	nmod:poss
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 weeping	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 son	case
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 weeping	compound
26	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hair	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 hair	case
29	unbound	unbound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hair	amod
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 weeping	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 plead	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 plead	mark
33	plead	plead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 came	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 people	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 plead	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past		the ears of Rana Mal's old mother			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3	come	past	Rana Mal's old mother		Mal's son's house weeping and unbound hair		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to weeping=Initial_Location
4	plead speech: request	to-infinitive	Rana Mal's old mother not said here			for the people	tree rules
6	weep		Mal's son				nom weeping «act intransitive»: 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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 84

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 84