Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 13
And when night fell, the last of the Rajputs had left the city, having laid, each man, at the feet of the true knight and champion of the defenceless, a full sheaf of the unknightly ones.
Who acts: night, last, man · What happens: fall, leave, have, lay · To what, where: city, man, feet
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 (night, last, man), 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 | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fell | advmod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 last | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 left | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Rajputs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rajputs | det |
| 10 | Rajputs | rajput | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 last | obl |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 having | punct |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 left | advcl |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 having | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 having | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feet | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 feet | det |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 having | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 knight | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 knight | det |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 knight | amod |
| 28 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feet | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 champion | cc |
| 30 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 knight | conj |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 defenceless | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 defenceless | det |
| 33 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 champion | acl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sheaf | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 sheaf | det |
| 36 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sheaf | amod |
| 37 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 knight | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 ones | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ones | det |
| 40 | unknightly | unknightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ones | amod |
| 41 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 sheaf | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | night | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | the last of the Rajputs | the city | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the last of the Rajputs not said here | each man | the feet of the true knight and champion and a full sheaf of the unknightly ones | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lay | participle | each man not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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