Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 16
All was emptiness--palace and hut, and bathing-ghat, and council chamber, and garden and marble-latticed roof--empty, all empty.
Who acts: garden · What happens: be, lattice · To what, where: emptiness
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 (garden), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 emptiness | det |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 emptiness | cop |
| 3 | emptiness | emptiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 palace | punct |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 emptiness | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hut | cc |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 palace | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ghat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ghat | cc |
| 10 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ghat | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 bathing | punct |
| 12 | ghat | ghat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 emptiness | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chamber | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chamber | cc |
| 15 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chamber | compound |
| 16 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 emptiness | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 empty | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 empty | cc |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 empty | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 roof | cc |
| 21 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 latticed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 marble | punct |
| 23 | latticed | lattice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 roof | amod |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 garden | conj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 empty | punct |
| 26 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 emptiness | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 empty | punct |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 empty | det |
| 29 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 empty | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 emptiness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | all emptiness and palace and hut and bathing ghat and council chamber | palace and hut conj; bathing ghat conj; council chamber conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lattice | participle | marble compound | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | garden and latticed roof | 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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