Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 257
At last when he had lost all patience and was about to offer her violence, he heard a knock at his door.
Who acts: prince · What happens: lose, be, offer, hear · To what, where: patience, violence, knock, door
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), 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 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 lost | mark |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lost | amod |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 lost | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 heard | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 patience | det |
| 8 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 about | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lost | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 offer | mark |
| 13 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 about | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 violence | nmod:poss |
| 15 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offer | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knock | det |
| 20 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 door | nmod:poss |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knock | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | prince | all patience | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | prince not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer | to-infinitive | prince not said here | girl's violence | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent violence=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | prince | a knock | prince's door | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus |
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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