Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 6
There is no room for us all, and some of us are weary and would sleep.”
Who acts: room, some · What happens: be, sleep
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 (room, some), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 room | det |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 room | nmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 weary | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 weary | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 weary | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 some | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 weary | cop |
| 14 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sleep | cc |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sleep | aux |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 weary | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no room for us | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | some of us | weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | would | some of us not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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