Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 27
The cave was empty, and they sat down to await the priestess.
Who acts: cave, towns · What happens: be, sit down, await · To what, where: priestess
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 (cave, towns), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cave | det |
| 2 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 empty | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 empty | cop |
| 4 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 empty | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 sat | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 await | mark |
| 11 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sat | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 priestess | det |
| 13 | priestess | priestess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 await | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cave | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | towns = town | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | await | to-infinitive | towns = town not said here | the priestess | 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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