Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 15
“But when you said that, you only meant that he should never look older than his thirteenth year, though he might live and live as long as he liked,” said clever goddess Parvati.
Who acts: you, Shiva, clever goddess · What happens: say, mean, not look, live, like · 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, Shiva, clever goddess), 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 | _ | 35 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 meant | cc |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 meant | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 meant | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 meant | advmod |
| 10 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 said | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 look | advmod |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 meant | ccomp |
| 16 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 look | xcomp |
| 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 | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 live | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 live | aux |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 look | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 live | cc |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 live | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 long | advmod |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 live | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 liked | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 liked | nsubj |
| 32 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 long | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 goddess | amod |
| 37 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 said | obj |
| 38 | Parvati | Parvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 goddess | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | past | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not look in a quote | should | Shiva | old property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | might | Shiva | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | live in a quote | infinitive | Shiva not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | like in a quote | past | Shiva | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | clever goddess | 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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