Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 17
“And poor old King Death was not clever enough to understand this, and thought that you meant him to take the boy away.
Who acts: poor old Death, you · What happens: not be, understand, think, mean, take away · To what, where: this, Death, boy · 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 (poor old Death, you), 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 | _ | 9 clever | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Death | cc |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Death | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Death | amod |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Death | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 clever | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 clever | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 clever | advmod |
| 9 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 clever | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 understand | mark |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 clever | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 understand | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 clever | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 meant | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 meant | nsubj |
| 19 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 meant | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 meant | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 take | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | poor old Death King | clever, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand in a quote | to-infinitive | poor old Death King not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | past | you | Death | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take away not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the boy | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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