Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 74
Then the King would have died; but a water-carrier on the opposite bank saw the King’s trouble, and brought him his own skin-bags, on which Humayun floated safely to land.
Who acts: King, water carrier, Humayun · What happens: die, see, bring, float, land, trouble · To what, where: trouble, own skin bags, king
This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, water carrier, Humayun), 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 | 6 died | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 died | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 died | aux |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 carrier | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrier | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 12 | carrier | carrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 15 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bank | amod |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrier | nmod |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 King | case |
| 21 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 brought | cc |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | obj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bags | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bags | amod |
| 28 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bags | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 skin | punct |
| 30 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 brought | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 floated | punct |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 floated | obl |
| 34 | Humayun | Humayun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 floated | nsubj |
| 35 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | conj |
| 36 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 35 floated | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 land | mark |
| 38 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 floated | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | would · perfect | the King | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a water carrier on the opposite bank | the King's trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | a water carrier on the opposite bank not said here | king's own skin bags | king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bag=Theme | |||
| 4 | float | past | Humayun | which obl; safely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | land | to-infinitive | Humayun not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | trouble | the King | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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