Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 14
And Ala-ud-din came walking carefully across this carpet of the dead, into a fortress of which the gates were wide.
Who acts: Ala ud din, gates · What happens: come, walk, be · To what, where: carpet
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 (Ala ud din, gates), 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 | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | Ala | Ala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 din | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ala | punct |
| 4 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 din | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ud | punct |
| 6 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 came | xcomp |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 walking | advmod |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 carpet | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 carpet | det |
| 12 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walking | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dead | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dead | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carpet | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fortress | punct |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 fortress | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fortress | det |
| 19 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walking | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 wide | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gates | det |
| 23 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wide | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wide | cop |
| 25 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortress | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Ala ud din | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | Ala ud din not said here | this carpet of the dead | into a fortress result; carefully property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fortress=Result | |||
| 3 | is | past | the gates | of a fortress; wide property | tree rules |
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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