Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 60
So when no one was looking he laid it on the grass by the roadside, and meant to go away and leave it there to die.
Who acts: one, journey · What happens: look, lay, mean, go away, leave, die · To what, where: baby, grass
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 (one, journey), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 laid | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 looking | mark |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 laid | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | nsubj |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grass | det |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 roadside | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roadside | det |
| 15 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 meant | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 meant | cc |
| 18 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 meant | xcomp |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leave | cc |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | obj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 leave | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 die | mark |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 leave | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | no one | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | journey | baby | the grass | by the roadside | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grass=Destination | ||
| 3 | mean | past | journey not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | journey not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | journey not said here | baby | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | die | to-infinitive | journey not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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