Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 37
“I am Sanga, son of Rasmal Rana: my brothers seek to kill me,” said Sanga.
Who acts: Sanga, brothers · What happens: be, seek, kill, say · To what, where: Sanga · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sanga, brothers), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sanga | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Sanga | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Sanga | cop |
| 4 | Sanga | Sanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Sanga | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rana | case |
| 8 | Rasmal | Rasmal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rana | compound |
| 9 | Rana | rana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 seek | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seek | nsubj |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Sanga | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seek | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seek | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sanga | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Sanga | Sanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Sanga | Sanga | son of Rasmal Rana appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seek in a quote | present | my brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | my brothers not said here | Sanga | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Sanga | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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