Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 70
And at one of these Fairs, Prince Salim, the Emperor’s son, lost his way in an empty part of the garden, where he could see no one but a small girl at play.
Who acts: way · What happens: lose, see · To what, where: way, empty part, one
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 (way), 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 | _ | 16 lost | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 lost | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fairs | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 Fairs | det |
| 6 | Fairs | fair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lost | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Salim | punct |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Salim | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Salim | Salim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fairs | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Emperor | det |
| 12 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Emperor | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Salim | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fairs | punct |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 part | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 21 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 part | amod |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 see | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 see | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 part | parataxis |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obj |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 girl | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 girl | det |
| 35 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 girl | amod |
| 36 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 one | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 play | case |
| 38 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 girl | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Salim's way | a empty part of the garden | at one; of this Fairs Salim Prince | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent way=Theme of fair=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | could | way | no one but a small girl at play | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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