Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 14
And Shiva was silent, not knowing what to answer.
Who acts: Shiva · What happens: be, not know, answer · 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 (Shiva), 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 | _ | 4 silent | cc |
| 2 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 silent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | cop |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knowing | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knowing | advmod |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 silent | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 answer | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 answer | mark |
| 10 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knowing | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Shiva | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | Shiva not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | what obj | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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