Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 9
The Moslem people of those days could not forgive her that.
Who acts: Moslem people · What happens: not forgive · To what, where: Delhi
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 (Moslem people), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 forgive | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 days | det |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 people | nmod |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgive | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 forgive | advmod |
| 9 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forgive | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 her | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forgive | could | the Moslem people of that days | Delhi | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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