Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 300
As he stood uncertain what to do, he heard cries outside his palace “Maharaja!
Who acts: king · What happens: stand, do, hear · To what, where: cries
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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | advcl |
| 4 | uncertain | uncertain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 uncertain | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | obj |
| 12 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Maharaja | punct |
| 16 | Maharaja | Maharaja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | appos |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Maharaja | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | king | uncertain property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | king not said here | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | king | cries | outside king's palace | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=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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