Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 236
The hawk robbed of its prey, flew back to perch on the wrist of the prince’s huntsman.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: rob, fly back · To what, where: hawk, wrist
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 (hawk), 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 hawk | det |
| 2 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hawk | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 prey | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robbed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hawk | punct |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 perch | case |
| 11 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 wrist | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wrist | det |
| 14 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 huntsman | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 huntsman | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 prince | case |
| 19 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wrist | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rob | participle | the hawk not said here | of well's prey | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of prey=Source | ||||
| 2 | fly back | past | the hawk | the wrist of the prince's huntsman | to perch | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on wrist=Location |
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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