Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 55
The women rode on camels, slung in cages on either side of the driver; and most of their luggage also was carried in this way.
Who acts: women · What happens: ride, sling, carry · To what, where: camels, cages, most, way
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 (women), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 women | det |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 camels | case |
| 5 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rode | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slung | punct |
| 7 | slung | sling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 camels | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cages | case |
| 9 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slung | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cages | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 driver | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 driver | det |
| 15 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carried | cc |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 luggage | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 luggage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | luggage | luggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 most | nmod |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 carried | advmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 carried | aux:pass |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rode | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the women | camels | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sling | participle | camels not said here | cages on either side of the driver | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in cage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · passive | most of women's luggage | this way | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in way=Location |
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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