Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 137
I love my father and my mother, and all the men-and-women people, and the children-people, and the beast-people, and bird-people in this good life that I know.
Who acts: I, men, children · What happens: love, people, know · To what, where: father
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 (I, men, children), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mother | cc |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 people | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 people | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 men | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 people | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 people | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 people | cc |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 people | compound |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 people | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 people | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 children | det |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 people | nsubj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 children | punct |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 people | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 people | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 27 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 people | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 beast | punct |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 people | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 people | cc |
| 32 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 people | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 bird | punct |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | parataxis |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 life | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 life | det |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 life | amod |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 people | nmod |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 know | mark |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 know | nsubj |
| 41 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 people | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | my father and my mother | the beast people parataxis; bird people in this good life parataxis | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | people | all men | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | people | the children | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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