Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 143
Get up behind me on the buffalo; we must be back before to-morrow’s day.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: get up, be · To what, where: buffalo
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 (you, we), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Get | compound:prt |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Get | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 buffalo | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 buffalo | det |
| 7 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 back | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 back | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 back | cop |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 morrow | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 to | punct |
| 16 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 morrow | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | imperative | you not said here | the buffalo | day | behind me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on buffalo=Source | ||
| 2 | is | must | we | back 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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