Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 88

Or will you have him just an ordinary boy, but living as long as the ordinary man, so that you may even see his children’s children?

Who acts: you · What happens: have, live, see · To what, where: Shiva, children

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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 boy	advmod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 long	cc
12	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 long	nsubj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 have	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 man	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 long	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 see	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 children	nmod:poss
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 children	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 children	case
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	you	Shiva	a ordinary boy advcl; long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	live	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	may	you	Shiva's children's children		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 88