Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 4
Then the tired Earth-people went to Parvati, the wife of Shiva, and, “Please help us,” they said.
Who acts: tired Earth people, people · What happens: go, help, say · To what, where: Parvati, us · 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 (tired Earth people, people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 people | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Earth | punct |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Parvati | case |
| 9 | Parvati | Parvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Parvati | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Shiva | case |
| 14 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 help | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 19 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 20 help | discourse |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the tired Earth people | Parvati | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | help in a quote | infinitive | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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