Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 313
The king had no other wish but to flee from the doomed town; but the youth would not let him pass.
Who acts: king, youth · What happens: have, flee, doom, not let, pass · To what, where: other wish, doomed town, 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 (king, youth), 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 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 wish | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wish | amod |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 flee | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 flee | mark |
| 9 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 12 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 town | amod |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flee | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 let | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 let | advmod |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | no other wish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flee | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the doomed town | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | doom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not let | would | the youth | king | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | king not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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