Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 87
Will you have him perfect in every way, beautiful and good and clever, and loved by all the world, but doomed to be no older than his thirteenth year?
Who acts: you · What happens: have, love, doom, not be · To what, where: Shiva
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 (you), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perfect | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 good | cc |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beautiful | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 clever | cc |
| 14 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beautiful | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loved | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loved | cc |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 world | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loved | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 doomed | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 doomed | cc |
| 24 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 loved | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 older | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 older | cop |
| 27 | no | no | ADV | _ | 28 older | advmod |
| 28 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 doomed | xcomp |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 year | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 year | nmod:poss |
| 31 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 year | amod |
| 32 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 older | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | Shiva | perfect property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | love | participle | you not said here | by all world | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | doom | participle | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is | to-infinitive | you not said here | year | old property | tree rules |
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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