Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 68
And the baby born by the roadside grew very beautiful, and was called _Mihr-un-Nisa_, which means “the Sun of Womankind”.
Who acts: baby, Mihr un · What happens: bear, grow, call, mean · To what, where: baby, Mihr un, Sun · 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 (baby, Mihr un), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 baby | det |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 baby | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 roadside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roadside | det |
| 7 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 grew | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 un | punct |
| 16 | Mihr | Mihr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 un | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mihr | punct |
| 18 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Nisa | punct |
| 20 | Nisa | Nisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 un | appos |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Nisa | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 means | nsubj |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 un | parataxis |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Sun | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sun | det |
| 27 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 means | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Womankind | case |
| 29 | Womankind | Womankind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Sun | nmod |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Sun | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | the baby not said here | by the roadside | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the baby | beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | the baby not said here | Mihr un | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | Mihr un | the Sun of Womankind | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Topic |
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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