Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 309
The king remembered the anchorite’s curse and would have ridden away leaving his city and his people to their fate.
Who acts: king, anchorite, people · What happens: remember, ride away, leave, curse, fate · To what, where: curse, city, fate
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, anchorite, people), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 anchorite | det |
| 5 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 anchorite | case |
| 7 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ridden | cc |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 ridden | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ridden | aux |
| 11 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 remembered | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 ridden | advmod |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ridden | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 city | nmod:poss |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaving | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 people | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 people | nmod:poss |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 city | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 fate | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fate | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaving | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the king | the anchorite's curse | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent curse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride away | would · perfect | the king not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the king not said here | king's city and king's people | people's fate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent city=Theme to fate=Recipient | |||
| 4 | curse | the anchorite | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | fate | people | nom fate «event 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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