Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 99
So Kamil, the perfect one, was born, and grew from happy baby to happy boy.
What happens: bear, grow · To what, where: Kamil, happy baby
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 born | advmod |
| 2 | Kamil | Kamil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Kamil | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kamil | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | aux:pass |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 baby | case |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 baby | amod |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 boy | case |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Kamil | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | happy baby | to happy boy result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from baby=Initial_State to boy=Result |
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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