Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 114
“No one has ever disobeyed the King of Death,” said the messengers.
Who acts: messengers · What happens: disobey, say · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (messengers), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 disobeyed | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disobeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 disobeyed | aux |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 disobeyed | advmod |
| 6 | disobeyed | disobey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 disobeyed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Death | case |
| 10 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 disobeyed | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 disobeyed | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 messengers | det |
| 15 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey in a quote | present · perfect · passive | no one | ever | the King of Death obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the messengers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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