Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 102
And his father and mother, and all the people of his village, alike forgot that there could be any end to this happiness.
Who acts: father, end · What happens: forget, not be
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 (father, end), 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 | _ | 16 forgot | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mother | cc |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgot | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forgot | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 people | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 forgot | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 village | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 village | nmod:poss |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 alike | punct |
| 15 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 village | amod |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 be | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 be | expl |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forgot | xcomp |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 be | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 happiness | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 happiness | det |
| 25 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Kamil's father and mother | all people of Kamil's village nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not can | could | any end to this happiness | there | 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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