Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 32
As now you sit on this skin, so one day shall you sit on the throne of Marwar.”
Who acts: you · What happens: sit · To what, where: skin, throne
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), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 now | case |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sit | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 skin | det |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 sit | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sit | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 sit | nsubj |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 throne | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 throne | det |
| 17 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sit | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Marwar | case |
| 19 | Marwar | Marwar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 throne | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | you | this skin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on skin=Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | shall | you | the throne of Marwar | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location |
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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