Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 8
And the women wore their most beautiful garments, to walk down to the vaults, a long line of beauty and courage led by the queen of beauty, the Lotus-Lady herself.
Who acts: women · What happens: wear, walk down, lead · To what, where: beautiful garments, Lotus Lady, courage
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 (women), 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 | _ | 4 wore | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 garments | nmod:poss |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 garments | amod |
| 8 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wore | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walk | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 walk | mark |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 wore | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 walk | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 vaults | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vaults | det |
| 15 | vaults | vault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 walk | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 line | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 line | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 line | amod |
| 19 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vaults | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 line | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 courage | cc |
| 23 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 line | conj |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 courage | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 queen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 queen | det |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 beauty | case |
| 29 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 queen | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Lady | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Lady | det |
| 32 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Lady | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Lotus | punct |
| 34 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 walk | obl |
| 35 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 walk | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the women | women's beautiful garments | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source | ||||
| 2 | walk down | to-infinitive | the women not said here | the Lotus Lady | to the vaults result; Rajputana obl; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to vault=Result | |||
| 3 | lead | participle | courage not said here | by the queen of beauty | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by queen=Destination |
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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