Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 28
The cave was simply furnished--a bed, a panther’s skin, a beggar’s bowl of water.
What happens: furnish · To what, where: cave
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: 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 | 5 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 furnished | aux:pass |
| 4 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 5 furnished | advmod |
| 5 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 bed | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furnished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 skin | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 panther | det |
| 11 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 skin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 panther | case |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furnished | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bowl | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 beggar | det |
| 16 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bowl | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 beggar | case |
| 18 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 skin | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bowl | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 furnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | past · passive | the cave | a bed obl; a panther's skin and a beggar's bowl of water parataxis; simply property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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