Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 73
When he came back _Mihr-un-Nisa_ had only one dove in her hands.
Who acts: way, Mihr un · What happens: come back, have · To what, where: one dove, hands
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, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 un | punct |
| 6 | Mihr | mihr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 un | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mihr | punct |
| 8 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Nisa | punct |
| 10 | Nisa | Nisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 un | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Nisa | flat |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 dove | nummod |
| 15 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dove | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Mihr un | one dove | un's hands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Patient |
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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