Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 71

He had in his hands his two favourite doves, and, wanting to fly kites with the boys at the fair, he told the little girl, who was our “Sun of Womankind”, to hold the doves till he should return.

Who acts: way, little girl · What happens: have, want, fly, tell, be, hold · To what, where: two favourite doves, hands, kites, fair, little girl, 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 (way, little girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 doves	nmod:poss
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 doves	nummod
8	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doves	amod
9	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanting	punct
13	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 told	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fly	mark
15	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanting	xcomp
16	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fly	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 boys	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boys	det
19	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fly	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 fair	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fair	det
22	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fly	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanting	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girl	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 girl	amod
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Sun	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 Sun	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 Sun	cop
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Sun	nmod:poss
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 Sun	punct
34	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 girl	appos
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Womankind	case
36	Womankind	Womankind	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Sun	nmod
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 Sun	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hold	punct
39	to	to	PART	_	40 hold	mark
40	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	ccomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 doves	det
42	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 hold	obj
43	till	till	SCONJ	_	46 return	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 return	nsubj
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 return	aux
46	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hold	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	way	way's two favourite doves		way's hands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Patient
2	want	gerund						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive		kites		the fair	with the boys	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme at fair=Location
4	tell speech: assert	past	way		the little girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is a in a quote	past	the little girl	our Sun			of Womankind; our nmod:poss	tree rules
6	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive		the doves				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme
7	return	should	way					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 71