Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 33
At this Prithi Raj drew his sword and would have slain his brother, but their uncle stepped between, and Sanga escaped.
Who acts: uncle, Sanga · What happens: draw, slay, step, escape · To what, where: sword, Prithi Raj, brother
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 (uncle, Sanga), 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 | _ | 4 Raj | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Raj | nsubj |
| 3 | Prithi | Prithi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Raj | compound |
| 4 | Raj | Raj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obl |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slain | cc |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 slain | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 slain | aux |
| 11 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 drew | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slain | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stepped | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 stepped | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stepped | nsubj |
| 18 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | conj |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 stepped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 escaped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 escaped | cc |
| 22 | Sanga | Sanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 escaped | nsubj |
| 23 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stepped | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Raj's sword | Prithi Raj this | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slay | would · perfect | Raj's brother | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||||
| 3 | step | past | skin's uncle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | escape | past | Sanga | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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