Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 92
Yet how could they bear to have him just an ordinary boy, like any other that came into the world, and had trouble, and made mistakes, and died at last, leaving no name behind him?
Who acts: man, that · What happens: bear, have, come, make, die, leave · To what, where: Shiva, world, trouble, mistakes, last, name
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, that), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 bear | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 bear | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bear | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 boy | advmod |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 other | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bear | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 other | ccomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | parataxis |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | conj |
| 29 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 made | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 died | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 died | cc |
| 32 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 last | case |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 died | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 leaving | punct |
| 36 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 died | advcl |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 name | det |
| 38 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leaving | obj |
| 39 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 leaving | obl |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | could | man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | man not said here | Shiva | a ordinary boy advcl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | past | that | the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past | trouble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | past | mistakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | |||||
| 6 | die | past | that not said here | last | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | leave | gerund | that not said here | no name | behind Shiva | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent name=Theme behind he=Location |
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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