Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 13
“That was why the King of Death came to fetch him.”
Who acts: That, King · What happens: be, come, fetch · To what, where: King · 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 (That, King), 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 | _ | 4 why | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 why | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | cop |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Death | case |
| 8 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fetch | mark |
| 11 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fetch | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the King of Death | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fetch in a quote | to-infinitive | the King of Death not said here | King | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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