Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 209
At last the king out of all patience, shut up his son in the tall tower which looked over the country round Brahmanabad.
Who acts: patience, tall tower · What happens: shut up, look · To what, where: son, tall tower
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 (patience, tall tower), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | nsubj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 patience | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 patience | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 patience | det |
| 8 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shut | punct |
| 10 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 patience | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 shut | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shut | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tower | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tower | amod |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shut | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tower | acl:relcl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | obl |
| 23 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 Brahmanabad | case |
| 24 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 country | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | participle | all patience not said here | king's son | the tall tower | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | look | past | the tall tower | over the country round Brahmanabad | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over country=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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