Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 34
He rode hard, his horse bleeding from sword-thrusts, for Jismal, his younger brother, was after him, while the uncle engaged Prithi Raj.
Who acts: uncle · What happens: ride, be, engage, bleed · To what, where: horse bleeding, Prithi Raj, sword thrusts
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bleeding | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bleeding | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bleeding | compound |
| 7 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 thrusts | case |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrusts | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sword | punct |
| 11 | thrusts | thrust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bleeding | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jismal | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Jismal | case |
| 14 | Jismal | Jismal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brother | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 brother | amod |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Jismal | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 him | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 him | cop |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 engaged | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 engaged | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 uncle | det |
| 26 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 engaged | nsubj |
| 27 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 28 | Prithi | Prithi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Raj | compound |
| 29 | Raj | Raj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 engaged | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | uncle | uncle's horse bleeding from sword thrusts | for Jismal; hard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | after Jismal | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | engage | past | the uncle | Prithi Raj | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raj=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bleed | uncle | sword thrusts | nom bleeding «state intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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