Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 52
There was once a Persian Prince of noble birth who lost all his money: so he left his country and came to India, bringing with him his wife and three children.
Who acts: Persian Prince, noble birth, Rahtore · What happens: be, lose, leave, come, bring · To what, where: money, country, India, wife
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 (Persian Prince, noble birth, Rahtore), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 5 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | compound |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birth | case |
| 8 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 birth | amod |
| 9 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 birth | acl:relcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 money | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 money | nmod:poss |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 left | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 country | nmod:poss |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 India | case |
| 24 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bringing | punct |
| 26 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 came | advcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bringing | obl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bringing | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 children | cc |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 children | nummod |
| 33 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wife | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Persian Prince of noble birth | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | past | noble birth | Rahtore's money | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | Rahtore | Rahtore's country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Rahtore not said here | India | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to india=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | bring | gerund | Rahtore not said here | Rahtore's wife and three children | with Rahtore | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
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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