Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 237
The prince rode up to the girl and with an evil smile on his lips, told her that she might keep the pigeon.
Who acts: prince, girl · What happens: ride up, tell, keep · To what, where: girl, pigeon · 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 (prince, girl), 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 | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rode | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smile | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 smile | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 smile | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 smile | amod |
| 12 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 lips | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lips | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 smile | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keep | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 keep | aux |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 told | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pigeon | det |
| 24 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | the prince | to the girl and a evil smile on prince's lips | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to girl=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | might | girl | the pigeon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=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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