Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 88
“The Turk is taxing our people, because your father will not give you in marriage to the Turk as he desires.”
Who acts: Turk, father · What happens: tax, not give, desire · To what, where: people, you, marriage
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 (Turk, father), 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 | _ | 5 taxing | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Turk | det |
| 3 | Turk | Turk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 taxing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 taxing | aux |
| 5 | taxing | tax | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 people | nmod:poss |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taxing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 give | advmod |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taxing | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 marriage | case |
| 17 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Turk | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Turk | det |
| 20 | Turk | Turk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 marriage | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 desires | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 desires | nsubj |
| 23 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taxing | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 taxing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tax in a quote | present · progressive | the Turk | our people | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not give in a quote | future | your father | you | marriage to the Turk | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | desire in a quote | present | father | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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