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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 66

Now the great man from Akbar’s Court was so kind that the woman told him all her story, and he asked to see her husband and her sons, and sent them all to the Emperor himself for protection.

Who acts: great man, woman, Court · What happens: be, tell, ask, see, send · To what, where: story, Court, husband, Emperor · 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, woman, Court), 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

advmoddetamodnsubjcasenmod:posscasenmodcopadvmodmarkdetnsubjadvcliobjdet:predetnmod:possobjpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompnmod:possobjccnmod:possconjpunctccconjobjnmod:unmarkedcasedetoblnmodcaseoblpunctrootNowADVtheDETgreatADJmanNOUNfromADPAkbarPROPN’sPARTCourtPROPNwasAUXsoADVkindADJthatSCONJtheDETwomanNOUNtoldVERBhimPRONallDETherPRONstoryNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONaskedVERBtoPARTseeVERBherPRONhusbandNOUNandCCONJherPRONsonsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsentVERBthemPRONallDETtoADPtheDETEmperorPROPNhimselfPRONforADPprotectionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem11 kindadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 mandet
3greatgreatADJDegree=Pos4 manamod
4manmanNOUNNumber=Sing11 kindnsubj
5fromfromADP_8 Courtcase
6AkbarAkbarPROPNNumber=Sing8 Courtnmod:poss
7’s'sPART_6 Akbarcase
8CourtCourtPROPNNumber=Sing4 mannmod
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 kindcop
10sosoADV_11 kindadvmod
11kindkindADJDegree=Posrootroot
12thatthatSCONJ_15 toldmark
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 womandet
14womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing15 toldnsubj
15toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 kindadvcl
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 toldiobj
17allallDETPronType=Tot19 storydet:predet
18herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 storynmod:poss
19storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing15 toldobj
20,,PUNCT_23 askedpunct
21andandCCONJ_23 askedcc
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 askednsubj
23askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 toldconj
24totoPART_25 seemark
25seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf23 askedxcomp
26herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 husbandnmod:poss
27husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing25 seeobj
28andandCCONJ_30 sonscc
29herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 sonsnmod:poss
30sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur27 husbandconj
31,,PUNCT_33 sentpunct
32andandCCONJ_33 sentcc
33sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 askedconj
34themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs33 sentobj
35allallDETPronType=Tot34 themnmod:unmarked
36totoADP_38 Emperorcase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 Emperordet
38EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing33 sentobl
39himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes38 Emperornmod
40forforADP_41 protectioncase
41protectionprotectionNOUNNumber=Sing33 sentobl
42..PUNCT_11 kindpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe great man from Akbar's Courtnowkind propertytree rules
2tell speech: assertpastthe womanAkbar's storyCourtvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3ask speech: askpastCourtvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4see not said to happento-infinitiveCourt not said hereAkbar's husband and Akbar's sonsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
5sendpastCourt not said herehusbandthe Emperor Courtfor protectionvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to emperor=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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