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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 248

As the party neared the palace, they passed an aged Brahman, who, hearing the cries of the struggling girl, begged the prince to free her.

Who acts: party, hawks, aged Brahman, struggling girl · What happens: near, pass, hear, struggle, beg, cry · To what, where: palace, aged Brahman, cries, prince

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 (party, hawks, aged Brahman, struggling 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

markdetnsubjadvcldetobjpunctnsubjadvcldetamodobjpunctnsubjpunctacldetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctdetobjmarkccompnsubjpunctrootAsSCONJtheDETpartyNOUNnearedVERBtheDETpalaceNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONpassedVERBanDETagedADJBrahmanNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRON,PUNCThearingVERBtheDETcriesNOUNofADPtheDETstrugglingVERBgirlNOUN,PUNCTbeggedVERBtheDETprinceNOUNtoPARTfreeADJherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_4 nearedmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 partydet
3partypartyNOUNNumber=Sing4 nearednsubj
4nearednearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 passedadvcl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 palacedet
6palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing4 nearedobj
7,,PUNCT_4 nearedpunct
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 passednsubj
9passedpassVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 beggedadvcl
10anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 Brahmandet
11agedagedADJDegree=Pos12 Brahmanamod
12BrahmanbrahmanNOUNNumber=Sing9 passedobj
13,,PUNCT_16 hearingpunct
14whowhoPRONPronType=Rel16 hearingnsubj
15,,PUNCT_16 hearingpunct
16hearinghearVERBVerbForm=Ger12 Brahmanacl
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 criesdet
18criescryNOUNNumber=Plur16 hearingobj
19ofofADP_22 girlcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 girldet
21strugglingstruggleVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 girlamod
22girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing18 criesnmod
23,,PUNCT_24 beggedpunct
24beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 princedet
26princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing24 beggedobj
27totoPART_28 freemark
28freefreeADJDegree=Pos24 beggedccomp
29hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 freensubj
30..PUNCT_24 beggedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1nearpastthe partythe palacetree rules
2passpasthawks = hawka aged Brahmanvn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brahman=Trajectory
3heargerunda aged Brahmanthe cries of the struggling girlvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
4strugglegerundvn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5beg speech: requestpastthe princevn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
6crythe struggling girlnom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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