Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 81
And her lovely face is still to be seen painted on ivory and vellum among the treasures of the ancient city of Delhi.
Who acts: lovely face · What happens: be, paint, treasure · To what, where: lovely face, ivory, ancient city
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 (lovely face), 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 | _ | 9 seen | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 face | amod |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | cop |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 seen | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ivory | case |
| 12 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 painted | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vellum | cc |
| 14 | vellum | vellum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ivory | conj |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 treasures | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 treasures | det |
| 17 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 painted | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 20 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 city | amod |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treasures | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Delhi | case |
| 23 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 city | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | un's lovely face | still | see property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | paint | participle | un's lovely face not said here | ivory and vellum | among the treasures of the ancient city of Delhi | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ivory=Destination | |||
| 3 | treasure | the ancient city of Delhi | nom treasure «possession 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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