Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 146

Then the King of Death was angry, and he laid hands on the boy to take him by force; and he dragged him away, so that the symbol of Shiva fell to the ground.

Who acts: King, symbol · What happens: be, lay, take, drag away, fall · To what, where: hands, King, Death

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, symbol), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 angry	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Death	case
5	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laid	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	nsubj
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	conj
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 laid	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 boy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laid	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 force	case
20	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 dragged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dragged	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dragged	nsubj
24	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dragged	obj
26	away	away	ADV	_	24 dragged	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fell	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 fell	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 symbol	det
31	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Shiva	case
33	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 symbol	nmod
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dragged	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King of Death			then	angry property	tree rules
2	lay	past	King	hands			on the boy	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on boy=Destination
3	take	to-infinitive	King not said here		King		by force	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	drag away	past	King	Death			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	fall	past	the symbol of Shiva				to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 146

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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 146