Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 86
“Why weeps my grandmother?” asked Naila.
What happens: weep, ask · To what, where: grandmother, Naila · 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: 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 weeps | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 weeps | advmod |
| 3 | weeps | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weeps | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 weeps | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 weeps | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 weeps | advcl |
| 9 | Naila | Naila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 weeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep in a quote | present | my grandmother | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Naila | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent naila=Recipient |
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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