Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 90
Think only that the robber Turks have carried off one of your jewels.”
Who acts: you · What happens: think, carry off · To what, where: robber Turks · 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: who acts (you), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 carried | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 carried | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Turks | det |
| 5 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Turks | compound |
| 6 | Turks | turk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | aux |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Think | ccomp |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 carried | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 jewels | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 13 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry off | present · perfect · passive | the robber Turks | off one of your jewels | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=Value |
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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