Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 123

And it was spring-time, and the leaves of the pipal tree were shining after a shower of rain, which had made all the world smell sweet with the good earth-smell.

Who acts: person, leaves · What happens: be, shine, make, smell · To what, where: spring time, rain

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 (person, leaves), 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	_	6 time	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 time	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 spring	punct
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smell	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shining	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shining	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaves	det
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shining	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
13	pipal	pipal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaves	nmod
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shining	aux
16	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 time	acl
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 shower	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 shower	det
19	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shining	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 rain	case
21	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shower	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 made	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 rain	acl:relcl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 world	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
29	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 smell	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	36 smell	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 smell	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 smell	amod
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 smell	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 earth	punct
36	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smell	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	person	spring time			tree rules
2	shine	past · progressive	the leaves of the pipal tree	spring time not said here	after a shower of rain		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent time=Theme
3	make	past · perfect · passive		rain		all world obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary world=Product
4	smell	present				with the good earth smell; sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 123