Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 117
“Go back to the King of Death and say: ‘The boy who loves the life he knows, says that he cannot come to the new life which he does not know.’”
Who acts: you, boy, King · What happens: go back, say, love, know, not come, not know · To what, where: life, new life · 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 (you, boy, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Death | case |
| 8 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 say | cc |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 says | nsubj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 loves | nsubj |
| 16 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 boy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 life | det |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loves | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knows | nsubj |
| 20 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 life | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boy | punct |
| 22 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 come | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 come | advmod |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 says | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 life | det |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 life | amod |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | obl |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 know | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 know | nsubj |
| 34 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 know | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 know | advmod |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 life | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back in a quote | imperative | you not said here | to the King of Death result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | the boy | the life | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | King | the life not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not come in a quote | can | King | the new life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | King | the new life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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