Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 20
And Prithi Raj was ambitious, and would boast that Fate meant him to lead the sons of Marwar.
Who acts: Prithi Raj, Fate · What happens: be, boast, mean, lead · To what, where: Raj, sons
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 (Prithi Raj, Fate), 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 | _ | 5 ambitious | cc |
| 2 | Prithi | Prithi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Raj | compound |
| 3 | Raj | Raj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ambitious | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ambitious | cop |
| 5 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boast | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 boast | cc |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 boast | aux |
| 9 | boast | boast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ambitious | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 meant | mark |
| 11 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 meant | nsubj |
| 12 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 boast | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meant | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lead | mark |
| 15 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 meant | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sons | det |
| 17 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lead | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Marwar | case |
| 19 | Marwar | Marwar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sons | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ambitious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prithi Raj | ambitious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | would | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | past | Fate | Raj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lead not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fate not said here | the sons of Marwar | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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