Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 94
Cruelty gave place to kindness, taking to giving, hating to loving--and for thirty-seven years there was peace and prosperity and goodwill in Delhi.
Who acts: Cruelty, peace · What happens: give, take, hate, be · To what, where: place, kindness
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 (Cruelty, peace), 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 | Cruelty | Cruelty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 kindness | case |
| 5 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 giving | mark |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 taking | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hating | punct |
| 11 | hating | hate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 taking | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 loving | case |
| 13 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hating | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 was | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 17 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 seven | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 thirty | punct |
| 19 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 was | obl |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 23 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 prosperity | cc |
| 25 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 peace | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 goodwill | cc |
| 27 | goodwill | goodwill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 peace | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Delhi | case |
| 29 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 goodwill | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Cruelty | place | kindness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to kindness=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | Cruelty not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | Cruelty not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hate | gerund | Cruelty not said here | to loving | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | be | past | peace and prosperity and goodwill in Delhi | there | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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