Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 126

He played on a slender reed of bamboo, blowing with his mouth; and he called the cattle to come home to rest, for it was the cow-dust hour, and the sun was setting.

Who acts: Shiva, cattle, sun · What happens: play, blow, call, come, rest, be · To what, where: slender reed, cattle · 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 (Shiva, cattle, sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 reed	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reed	det
5	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reed	amod
6	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bamboo	case
8	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reed	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blowing	punct
10	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 played	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mouth	nmod:poss
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blowing	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 played	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cattle	det
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cattle	acl
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 rest	mark
24	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hour	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	33 hour	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hour	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hour	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hour	det
30	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hour	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 cow	punct
32	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hour	compound
33	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 setting	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 setting	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sun	det
37	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 setting	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 setting	aux
39	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 called	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	Shiva		a slender reed of bamboo			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blow	gerund	Shiva not said here				with Shiva's mouth	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with mouth=Theme
3	call	past	Shiva	the cattle				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cattle=Recipient
4	come	to-infinitive	Shiva not said here				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rest	to-infinitive	Shiva not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	cattle			for the cow dust hour		tree rules
7	set	past · progressive	the sun					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 126

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 126