Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 25
Let us ask her who is to lead the ten thousand towns of Marwar when our father is dead.”
Who acts: you, us, father · What happens: let, ask, be · To what, where: us, priestess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, us, father), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | iobj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lead | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lead | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lead | mark |
| 8 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 towns | det |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thousand | compound |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 towns | nummod |
| 12 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lead | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Marwar | case |
| 14 | Marwar | Marwar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 towns | nmod |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 dead | advmod |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dead | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 dead | cop |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lead | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | us not said here | priestess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | present | who nsubj; the thousand towns of Marwar obj; lead property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | our father | dead property | 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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