Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 299
The Madu girl had picked it up and when the wicked king would have caught her in his arms she pointed the dagger at him and threatened to stab him if he came near her.
Who acts: girl, king · What happens: pick up, catch, point, threaten, stab, come · To what, where: Madu girl, wicked king, arms, dagger, king
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 (girl, king), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | Madu | Madu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 picked | aux |
| 5 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 picked | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 picked | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 caught | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 caught | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 king | amod |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 caught | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 caught | aux |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 picked | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caught | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 arms | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 caught | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pointed | nsubj |
| 21 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arms | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dagger | det |
| 23 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pointed | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pointed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 threatened | cc |
| 27 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 picked | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 stab | mark |
| 29 | stab | stab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 threatened | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stab | obj |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 came | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stab | advcl |
| 34 | near | near | ADP | _ | 35 her | case |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | the Madu girl | dagger obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | would · perfect · passive | the wicked king | king's arms | girl obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Theme | |||
| 3 | point | past | girl | the dagger | at king | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient | |||
| 4 | threaten | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stab not said to happen | to-infinitive | king | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 6 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | king | near girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location |
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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