Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 12
“But you know you did say that the perfect boy was to be no older than his thirteenth year,” said Parvati.
Who acts: you, perfect boy, Parvati · What happens: know, say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, perfect boy, Parvati), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 older | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 older | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 older | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 older | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 older | cop |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 older | advmod |
| 16 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 say | advcl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 year | nmod:poss |
| 19 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 year | amod |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 older | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | Parvati | Parvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | past | the perfect boy | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Parvati | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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