Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 90
And the man and his wife were sorrowful; for to choose was not easy.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, choose, not be
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), 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 | _ | 8 sorrowful | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wife | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorrowful | cop |
| 8 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 choose | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 choose | case |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 choose | mark |
| 12 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorrowful | parataxis |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 easy | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 easy | advmod |
| 15 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 choose | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrowful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man and Shiva's wife | sorrowful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is | past | easy 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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