Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 255
But the prince pushed past his servants and took the Madu girl to a distant part of the palace and there tried to win her consent.
Who acts: prince, palace · What happens: push, take, try, win, consent · To what, where: servants, Madu girl, distant part, consent
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, palace), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 pushed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushed | nsubj |
| 4 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 servants | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pushed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | Madu | Madu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 girl | compound |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 part | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 15 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 part | amod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tried | cc |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 tried | advmod |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushed | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 win | mark |
| 24 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tried | xcomp |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 consent | nmod:poss |
| 26 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 win | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | the prince | prince's servants | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past servant=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the prince not said here | the Madu girl | a distant part of the palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to part=Destination | |||
| 3 | try | past | the prince not said here | there | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | palace's consent | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | consent | palace | nom consent «communication 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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