Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 1

He must have been a bad man indeed, and no knight at all, in that even the vision of Perfect Beauty had not the power to kill in him that which was base and self-seeking.

Who acts: He, Perfect Beauty · What happens: be, have, kill, seek · To what, where: bad man, power, base

This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, Perfect Beauty), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 man	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 man	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knight	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knight	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 knight	det
12	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 knight	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 vision	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 vision	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 vision	nsubj
18	even	even	ADV	_	20 vision	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 vision	det
20	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Beauty	case
22	Perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Beauty	amod
23	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 vision	nmod
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Beauty	acl
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 power	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 power	det
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 kill	mark
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 power	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kill	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 base	mark
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 base	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 base	cop
35	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kill	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 seeking	cc
37	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seeking	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 self	punct
39	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 base	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	must · perfect	He	a bad man and no knight at all and the vision that of Perfect Beauty	no knight at all conj; the vision that of Perfect Beauty conj; indeed property	tree rules
2	have	past	Perfect Beauty not said here	the power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	kill	to-infinitive	Perfect Beauty not said here	the power not said here	in him = he	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		base	which nsubj	tree rules
5	seek	gerund			self compound	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 1