Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 10
And the King and his sons and his brave knights all strove as to who should be first to meet single-handed the enemy at the gates.
Who acts: King · What happens: strove, be, meet, hand · To what, where: single handed enemy, gates
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 (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strove | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 strove | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sons | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 King | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knights | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 knights | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knights | amod |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 King | conj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 strove | advmod |
| 12 | strove | strove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 first | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 first | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 first | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 first | cop |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 strove | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 meet | mark |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 first | acl |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 enemy | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 single | punct |
| 23 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 enemy | amod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 enemy | det |
| 25 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meet | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 gates | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gates | det |
| 28 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 enemy | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 strove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strove | present | the King and King's sons and King's brave knights | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | should | who nsubj; first property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the single handed enemy | the gates | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | hand | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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