Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 79
And many years afterwards, when he became Emperor, he married her, and changed her name to _Nŭr Mahal_, “the Light of the Palace”.
Who acts: other, un · What happens: become, marry, change, name, light · To what, where: un, name, Nŭr Mahal, Palace
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 (other, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 became | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 8 became | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 became | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 married | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 married | nsubj |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 married | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 changed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 changed | cc |
| 16 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Mahal | case |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | Nŭr | Nŭr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mahal | compound |
| 22 | Mahal | Mahal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 changed | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 changed | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Light | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Light | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Light | det |
| 27 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changed | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Palace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Palace | det |
| 30 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Light | nmod |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Light | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | other | year | Emperor xcomp; afterwards property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | marry | past | other | un | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | change | past | other not said here | un's name | Nŭr Mahal | the Light of the Palace parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 4 | name | un | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | light in a quote | the Palace | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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