Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 2
So yet once more, he sallied forth against Chittore long years afterwards, when the Baby-King was full grown, and with his twelve brave sons, and Bhimsi, and the other brave Rajput princes, kept faithful guard over the honour of knighthood in Rajputana.
Who acts: he, other brave Rajput princes · What happens: sally, grow, keep, honour · To what, where: twelve brave sons, Baby King, faithful guard, honour, knighthood
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 (he, other brave Rajput princes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 sallied | advmod |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 once | advmod |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sallied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sallied | nsubj |
| 7 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 sallied | advmod |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 10 | Chittore | Chittore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 years | compound |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sallied | obl |
| 13 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 12 years | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grown | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 grown | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 17 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 King | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Baby | punct |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 grown | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 grown | aux:pass |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grown | amod |
| 22 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sallied | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sons | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sons | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 sons | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sons | nmod:poss |
| 27 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 sons | nummod |
| 28 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sons | amod |
| 29 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sallied | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Bhimsi | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Bhimsi | cc |
| 32 | Bhimsi | Bhimsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sons | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 princes | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 princes | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 princes | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 princes | amod |
| 37 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 princes | amod |
| 38 | Rajput | rajput | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 princes | compound |
| 39 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Bhimsi | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 kept | punct |
| 41 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 princes | acl |
| 42 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 guard | amod |
| 43 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 kept | obj |
| 44 | over | over | ADP | _ | 46 honour | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 honour | det |
| 46 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 kept | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 knighthood | case |
| 48 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 honour | nmod |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 Rajputana | case |
| 50 | Rajputana | Rajputana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 knighthood | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sallied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sally | past | he | King's twelve brave sons | yet; year | forth property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | grow | past · passive | the Baby King | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | participle | the other brave Rajput princes not said here | faithful guard | the honour of knighthood in Rajputana | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guard=Theme over honour=Location | |||
| 4 | honour | knighthood in Rajputana | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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