Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 97
Now Bhimsi had a most beautiful wife, the Lotus-Lady, the fame of whose beauty had gone forth all over India.
Who acts: Bhimsi, fame · What happens: have, go · To what, where: beautiful wife, Lotus Lady, India
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 (Bhimsi, fame), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Bhimsi | Bhimsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wife | amod |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lady | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lady | det |
| 10 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lady | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lotus | punct |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fame | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fame | det |
| 15 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 beauty | case |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | obl |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | aux |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 gone | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 India | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 India | case |
| 24 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Bhimsi | a beautiful wife | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the fame | the Lotus Lady | India | of beauty; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of beauty=Initial_Location over india=Destination |
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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