Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 247
The prince carried off the girl and the men with him said in jest “The prince’s hawk lost its prey, but the prince had better luck!”
Who acts: prince, men, hawk · What happens: carry off, say, lose, have · To what, where: girl, jest, prey, better luck · 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, men, 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 jest | case |
| 14 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hawk | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 prince | case |
| 19 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 prey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 prince | det |
| 26 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 28 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 luck | amod |
| 29 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past | the prince | the girl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the men with prince | jest | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in jest=Manner | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | past | the prince's hawk | jest's prey | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | the prince | better luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=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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