Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 5
“Our weak and defenceless ones shall not,” they said, “fall into the hands of a coward enemy.”
Who acts: armies · What happens: say, fall · To what, where: hands · 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 (armies), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ones | nmod:poss |
| 3 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 defenceless | cc |
| 5 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weak | conj |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shall | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 shall | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shall | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shall | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fall | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fall | punct |
| 15 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hands | det |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fall | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 enemy | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 enemy | det |
| 21 | coward | coward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 enemy | amod |
| 22 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fall | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | armies = army | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | infinitive | into the hands of a coward enemy result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result |
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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