Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 49
And when at last they forced their way into the sanctuary over his dead body, Sanga was far away in safety.
Who acts: man, Sanga · What happens: force, be · To what, where: way, sanctuary, safety
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 (man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 last | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 last | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forced | nsubj |
| 6 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 last | acl:relcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forced | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sanctuary | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sanctuary | det |
| 11 | sanctuary | sanctuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forced | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 body | amod |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forced | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 away | punct |
| 17 | Sanga | Sanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 away | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 away | cop |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 forced | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 safety | case |
| 22 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 away | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past | man | man's way | the sanctuary | over Rahtore's dead body | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is | past | Sanga | safety | away, far property | tree rules |
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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