Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 148
“And you shall not return to the world of the-things-that-pass, till I bid you,” said Shiva.
Who acts: you, Shiva · What happens: not return, bid, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Shiva), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 return | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 return | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 return | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 return | advmod |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 things | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 things | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 the | punct |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 world | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pass | punct |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 pass | det |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 that | punct |
| 17 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 things | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bid | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 bid | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bid | nsubj |
| 21 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 return | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 bid | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return in a quote | shall | you | to the world of the things that pass result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to world=Result | ||||
| 2 | bid in a quote | past | Shiva | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Shiva | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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