Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 106
So, on his birthday, the King of Death sent his messengers, to bring Kamil away to the Kingdom of Death.
Who acts: King · What happens: send, bring away · To what, where: messengers, birthday, Kamil, Kingdom
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 birthday | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 5 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 birthday | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Death | case |
| 10 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 messengers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bring | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bring | mark |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | conj |
| 17 | Kamil | Kamil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Kingdom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Kingdom | det |
| 21 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Death | case |
| 23 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Kingdom | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King of Death | Kamil's messengers | Kamil's birthday | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring away | to-infinitive | the King of Death not said here | Kamil | the Kingdom of Death | away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kamil=Theme to kingdom=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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