Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 125
And under the pipal tree stood the perfect boy beside the shrine of Shiva, the great god, playing a little tune of the gladness of the-things-that-pass.
What happens: stand, play · To what, where: perfect boy, pipal tree, little tune
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: 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 stood | cc |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 4 | pipal | pipal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 8 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 shrine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shrine | det |
| 12 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Shiva | case |
| 14 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shrine | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 god | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 god | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 god | amod |
| 18 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Shiva | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 playing | punct |
| 20 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stood | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tune | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tune | amod |
| 23 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 playing | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gladness | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gladness | det |
| 26 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tune | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 things | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 things | det |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 the | punct |
| 30 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gladness | nmod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 pass | punct |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 pass | det |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 that | punct |
| 34 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 things | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the perfect boy | the pipal tree | beside the shrine of Shiva | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme under tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | a little tune of the gladness of the things that pass | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=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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