Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 151
But the King of Death could no more send his messengers to the Earth; so everything lived forever--the men and women and beasts and birds and flower-people all lived; and yet new men and women and beasts and birds and flower-people were always coming to the Earth, as before.
Who acts: King, everything, men, new men · What happens: send, live, come · To what, where: messengers, Earth
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, everything, men, new men), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 send | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 send | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Death | case |
| 5 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 more | aux |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 King | amod |
| 9 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 messengers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 send | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Earth | det |
| 14 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 send | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 send | parataxis |
| 19 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 men | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 men | det |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lived | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 women | cc |
| 24 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 men | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beasts | cc |
| 26 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 men | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 birds | cc |
| 28 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 men | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 people | cc |
| 30 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 people | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 flower | punct |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 men | conj |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 lived | advmod |
| 34 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lived | advcl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 coming | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 coming | cc |
| 37 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 38 new | advmod |
| 38 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 men | amod |
| 39 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 coming | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 women | cc |
| 41 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 men | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 beasts | cc |
| 43 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 men | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 birds | cc |
| 45 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 men | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 people | cc |
| 47 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 people | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 flower | punct |
| 49 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 men | conj |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 coming | aux |
| 51 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 52 coming | advmod |
| 52 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 send | advcl |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 Earth | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Earth | det |
| 55 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 coming | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 before | punct |
| 57 | as | as | ADP | _ | 58 before | case |
| 58 | before | before | ADV | _ | 52 coming | advmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | the King of Death | King's messengers | the Earth | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to earth=Destination | |||
| 2 | live | past | everything | forever property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the men and women and beasts and birds and flower people | all property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | new men and women and beasts and birds and flower people | the Earth | always, before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location |
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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