Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 184
He drove the wicked king from his house and instantly left Brahmanabad with Fatima.
Who acts: Chota · What happens: drive, leave · To what, where: wicked king, house, Brahmanabad
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chota), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 11 left | advmod |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | conj |
| 12 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Fatima | case |
| 14 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | Chota | the wicked king | Chota's house | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme from house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | leave | past | Chota not said here | Brahmanabad | with Fatima; instantly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent brahmanabad=Recipient with fatima=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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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