Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 7
And they left them enough wood and fire for the sacrifice.
Who acts: armies · What happens: leave · To what, where: women
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 (armies), 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 | _ | 3 left | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wood | amod |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fire | cc |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wood | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sacrifice | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sacrifice | det |
| 11 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | armies = army | women = woman | for the sacrifice; enough wood and fire obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme wood=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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