Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 147
And now Shiva himself, the great god, was angered, and his voice thundered forth, ordering the King of Death back to the Kingdom of Death.
Who acts: Shiva, voice · What happens: god, anger, thunder, order · To what, where: great god, King
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 (Shiva, voice), 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 | _ | 8 god | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 god | advmod |
| 3 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 god | nsubj |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 Shiva | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 god | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 god | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 god | amod |
| 8 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 angered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 god | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 angered | aux:pass |
| 11 | angered | anger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thundered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thundered | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thundered | nsubj |
| 16 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 angered | conj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 thundered | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ordering | punct |
| 19 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 thundered | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ordering | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Death | case |
| 23 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 King | nmod |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 Kingdom | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Kingdom | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Kingdom | det |
| 27 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ordering | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Death | case |
| 29 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Kingdom | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 angered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | god | Shiva Shiva | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | anger | past · passive | the great god | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | thunder | past | Shiva's voice | forth property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | order | gerund | Shiva's voice not said here | the King of Death | to the Kingdom of Death | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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