Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 24
At the Tiger’s Mount lives the priestess who sees the future.
Who acts: priestess · What happens: live, see · To what, where: priestess, Mount, future
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 (priestess), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 Mount | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tiger | det |
| 3 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mount | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Tiger | case |
| 5 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 priestess | det |
| 8 | priestess | priestess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sees | nsubj |
| 10 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 priestess | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 future | det |
| 12 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sees | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the priestess | the Tiger's Mount | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme priestess=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | present | the priestess | the future | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer future=Stimulus |
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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