Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 11
And they cast lots: and went one by one clad in the Rajput saffron robe of conquest: and single-handed each hewed his way through the gates, strewing the moat and outworks with the bodies of the slain.
Who acts: gates · What happens: cast, go, clad, hand, hew, strew · To what, where: lots, one, Rajput saffron robe, way, gates, moat
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 (gates), 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 | _ | 3 cast | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cast | nsubj |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cast | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cast | conj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 went | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 robe | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 robe | det |
| 14 | Rajput | Rajput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 robe | compound |
| 15 | saffron | saffron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 robe | compound |
| 16 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clad | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 conquest | case |
| 18 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 robe | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 hewed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hewed | cc |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 handed | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 single | punct |
| 23 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 hewed | advcl |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 hewed | advmod |
| 25 | hewed | hew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hewed | obj |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 gates | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gates | det |
| 30 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hewed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 strewing | punct |
| 32 | strewing | strew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 hewed | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 moat | det |
| 34 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 strewing | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 outworks | cc |
| 36 | outworks | outwork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 moat | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 bodies | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bodies | det |
| 39 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 strewing | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 slain | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 slain | det |
| 42 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bodies | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | present | gates = gate | lots | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product | ||||
| 2 | go | past | gates = gate not said here | one | by one | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||
| 3 | clad | participle | the Rajput saffron robe of conquest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hand | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | hew | past | gates = gate not said here | King's way | the gates | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | |||
| 6 | strew | gerund | gates = gate not said here | the moat and outworks | with the bodies of the slain | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent moat=Destination with body=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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