Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 9
“Will you not let the King of Death send his slow-moving grey-black buffalo for the tired Earth-people?”
Who acts: you, King · What happens: not let, send, move · To what, where: grey black buffalo · 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, King), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 send | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Death | case |
| 9 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 buffalo | nmod:poss |
| 12 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moving | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 slow | punct |
| 14 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 buffalo | csubj |
| 15 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 buffalo | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 grey | punct |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 buffalo | amod |
| 18 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 21 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 22 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 people | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Earth | punct |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 send | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a quote | future | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present | the King of Death | King's grey black buffalo | for the tired Earth people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | |||
| 3 | move in a quote | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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