Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 69
She lived near the Palace, and would go with the women into the Palace gardens, whenever the great Fairs took place, where the zenana women sold their lovely work and embroideries.
Who acts: un, great Fairs, zenana women, women · What happens: live, go, take, sell, work · To what, where: Palace, Palace gardens, place, lovely work
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 (un, great Fairs, zenana women, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 Palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Palace | det |
| 5 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lived | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 women | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 women | det |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 gardens | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gardens | det |
| 15 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gardens | compound |
| 16 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 18 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 took | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fairs | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Fairs | amod |
| 21 | Fairs | Fair | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sold | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 sold | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 women | det |
| 27 | zenana | zenana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 women | compound |
| 28 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sold | nsubj |
| 29 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 work | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 work | amod |
| 32 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sold | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 embroideries | cc |
| 34 | embroideries | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 work | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | un | the Palace | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | would | un not said here | the Palace gardens | with the women | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | take | past | the great Fairs | place | whenever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 4 | sell | past | the zenana women | women's lovely work and embroideries | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 5 | work | women = woman | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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