Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 27
And, “It was well,” said the man, his father, “that I left the Son-puzzle to you, O Mother of Kamil.”
Who acts: world, man · What happens: be, say, leave · To what, where: Son puzzle, you · 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 (world, man), 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 | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 was | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 left | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 puzzle | det |
| 21 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 puzzle | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Son | punct |
| 23 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Mother | punct |
| 27 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mother | compound |
| 28 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Kamil | case |
| 30 | Kamil | Kamil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mother | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | world | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man and Kamil's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | past | the man and Kamil's father = man | the Son puzzle | you | O Mother of Kamil obl | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent puzzle=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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