Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 221
The prince had him put to bed and as he lay asleep, the prince’s barber shaved off the sage’s moustaches and stuck in their place crow’s feathers.
Who acts: prince, barber · What happens: put, lie, shave off · To what, where: prince, barber, moustaches
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 (prince, barber), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 lay | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lay | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 barber | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 barber | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 17 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 18 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 barber | acl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 moustaches | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sage | det |
| 21 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moustaches | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 sage | case |
| 23 | moustaches | moustache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shaved | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stuck | cc |
| 25 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 moustaches | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 feathers | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 crow | nmod:poss |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 crow | compound |
| 29 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 crow | case |
| 31 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stuck | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect · passive | the prince | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | prince | the prince's barber | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | shave off | participle | the prince's barber not said here | the sage's moustaches | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moustache=Patient |
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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