Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 223
He rose, fled from the prince’s house and threw himself at King Amrai’s feet and told him of the prince’s cruel trick.
Who acts: man, prince · What happens: rise, flee, throw, tell, trick · To what, where: house, man, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, prince), 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 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fled | punct |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 threw | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Amrai | Amrai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | flat |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 threw | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 trick | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 trick | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 prince | case |
| 25 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 trick | amod |
| 26 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | flee | past | man not said here | the prince's house | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | man not said here | man | King's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | man not said here | man | of the prince's cruel trick | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | trick | the prince | nom trick «act 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: «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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