Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 77
“Just so, my Prince,” said _Mihr-un-Nisa_, opening her other hand, from which the second dove also flew happily away.
Who acts: Prince, second dove · What happens: say, open, fly away · To what, where: other hand · 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 (Prince, second dove), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Prince | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Prince | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Prince | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 un | punct |
| 11 | Mihr | mihr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 un | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mihr | punct |
| 13 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nisa | punct |
| 15 | Nisa | Nisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 un | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nisa | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 opening | punct |
| 18 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hand | amod |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opening | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 flew | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 flew | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dove | det |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 dove | amod |
| 27 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 flew | nsubj |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 flew | advmod |
| 29 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 30 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 29 flew | advmod |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 flew | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my Prince | Mihr un ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | my Prince not said here | un's other hand | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly away | past | the second dove | which obl; away, happily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory |
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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