Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 50
And the perfect host had kept his tradition of hospitality.
What happens: keep · To what, where: perfect host
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: 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 | _ | 6 kept | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 host | det |
| 3 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 host | amod |
| 4 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tradition | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hospitality | case |
| 10 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tradition | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | the perfect host | Rahtore's tradition of hospitality obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme tradition=Attribute |
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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