🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 62

And the great man saw the poor little baby lying alone on the grass, and, as it seemed to belong to no one, he said he would take it for his own.

Who acts: great man, poor little baby, it, journey · What happens: see, lie, seem, belong, say, take · To what, where: poor little baby, grass, one, baby · 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 (great man, poor little baby, it, 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

Pragmatics

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.

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