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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

punctadvmodcasedetoblcasenmodccconjpunctpunctdetnsubjnsubjacl:relcldetobjnsubjacl:relclpunctparataxismarknsubjauxadvmodccompcasedetamodoblobjnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclpunctpunctpunctroot“PUNCTGoVERBbackADVtoADPtheDETKingPROPNofADPDeathPROPNandCCONJsayVERB:PUNCT‘PUNCTTheDETboyNOUNwhoPRONlovesVERBtheDETlifeNOUNhePRONknowsVERB,PUNCTsaysVERBthatSCONJhePRONcanAUXnotPARTcomeVERBtoADPtheDETnewADJlifeNOUNwhichPRONhePRONdoesAUXnotPARTknowVERB.PUNCT’PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Gopunct
2GogoVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
3backbackADV_2 Goadvmod
4totoADP_6 Kingcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Kingdet
6KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing2 Goobl
7ofofADP_8 Deathcase
8DeathDeathPROPNNumber=Sing6 Kingnmod
9andandCCONJ_10 saycc
10saysayVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 Goconj
11::PUNCT_22 sayspunct
12‘'PUNCT_22 sayspunct
13ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 boydet
14boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing22 saysnsubj
15whowhoPRONPronType=Rel16 lovesnsubj
16lovesloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 boyacl:relcl
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 lifedet
18lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing16 lovesobj
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 knowsnsubj
20knowsknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 lifeacl:relcl
21,,PUNCT_14 boypunct
22sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 Goparataxis
23thatthatSCONJ_27 comemark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 comensubj
25cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin27 comeaux
26notnotPARTPolarity=Neg27 comeadvmod
27comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf22 saysccomp
28totoADP_31 lifecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 lifedet
30newnewADJDegree=Pos31 lifeamod
31lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing27 comeobl
32whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel36 knowobj
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 knownsubj
34doesdoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 knowaux
35notnotPARTPolarity=Neg36 knowadvmod
36knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf31 lifeacl:relcl
37..PUNCT_2 Gopunct
38’'PUNCT_2 Gopunct
39”"PUNCT_2 Gopunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go back in a quoteimperativeyou not said hereto the King of Death resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result
2say speech: assert in a quoteinfinitiveyou not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3love in a quotepresentthe boythe lifevn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
4know in a quotepresentKingthe life not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
5say speech: assert in a quotepresentthe boyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6not come in a quotecanKingthe new lifevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
7not know in a quotepresent · do-supportKingthe new lifevn 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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