Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 83

There were once a man and woman so truly good that the great god said he would reward them with whatever they wished to ask.

Who acts: man, great god, Salim · What happens: be, say, reward, wish, ask · To what, where: gods · 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 (man, great god, Salim), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 were	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 woman	cc
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
9	truly	truly	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 god	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 god	amod
14	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 good	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reward	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reward	aux
18	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reward	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 whatever	case
21	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 reward	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wished	nsubj
23	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 whatever	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 ask	mark
25	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wished	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man and woman		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the great god				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	reward	would	Salim	gods = god		with whatever	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with whatever=Theme
4	wish	past	man				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 83