Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 287
The prince read it and glowing with rage “from his topknot to his toenails,” rushed at the old man.
Who acts: prince · What happens: read, glow, rush · To what, where: plate, topknot, toenails
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 read | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 glowing | cc |
| 6 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 read | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glowing | obl |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 topknot | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 topknot | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 topknot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | topknot | topknot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glowing | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 toenails | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 toenails | nmod:poss |
| 15 | toenails | toenail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 topknot | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 toenails | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 toenails | punct |
| 18 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 toenails | acl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | the prince | plate | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | glow | gerund | the prince not said here | prince's topknot to prince's toenails | with rage | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme | |||
| 3 | rush | participle | prince's toenails not said here | at the old man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at man=Trajectory |
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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