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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 127

When the King of Death was close by the perfect boy stopped playing, and looked at him riding on the long, long back of his slow-moving grey-black buffalo.

Who acts: King, perfect boy · What happens: be, stop, play, look, ride, move · To what, where: long long back

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 (King, perfect boy), 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

markdetnsubjcasenmodcopadvclcasedetamodnsubjxcomppunctccconjcaseobladvclcasedetamodpunctamodoblcasenmod:possadvmodpunctcsubjamodpunctamodnmodpunctrootWhenSCONJtheDETKingPROPNofADPDeathPROPNwasAUXcloseADJbyADPtheDETperfectADJboyNOUNstoppedVERBplayingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJlookedVERBatADPhimPRONridingVERBonADPtheDETlongADJ,PUNCTlongADJbackNOUNofADPhisPRONslowADJ-PUNCTmovingVERBgreyADJ-PUNCTblackADJbuffaloNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_7 closemark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Kingdet
3KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing7 closensubj
4ofofADP_5 Deathcase
5DeathDeathPROPNNumber=Sing3 Kingnmod
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 closecop
7closecloseADJDegree=Pos12 stoppedadvcl
8bybyADP_11 boycase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 boydet
10perfectperfectADJDegree=Pos11 boyamod
11boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing12 stoppednsubj
12stoppedstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13playingplayVERBVerbForm=Ger12 stoppedxcomp
14,,PUNCT_16 lookedpunct
15andandCCONJ_16 lookedcc
16lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 stoppedconj
17atatADP_18 himcase
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 lookedobl
19ridingrideVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 lookedadvcl
20ononADP_25 backcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 backdet
22longlongADJDegree=Pos25 backamod
23,,PUNCT_22 longpunct
24longlongADJDegree=Pos25 backamod
25backbackNOUNNumber=Sing19 ridingobl
26ofofADP_34 buffalocase
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 buffalonmod:poss
28slowslowADJDegree=Pos30 movingadvmod
29--PUNCT_28 slowpunct
30movingmoveVERBVerbForm=Ger34 buffalocsubj
31greygreyADJDegree=Pos34 buffaloamod
32--PUNCT_31 greypunct
33blackblackADJDegree=Pos34 buffaloamod
34buffalobuffaloNOUNNumber=Sing25 backnmod
35..PUNCT_12 stoppedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe King of Deathclose propertytree rules
2stoppastthe perfect boyvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3playgerundthe perfect boy not said herevn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4lookpastthe perfect boy not said hereat Kingvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5ridegerundthe perfect boy not said herethe long long back of King's grey black buffalovn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6movegerundvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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