Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 316
In a few minutes the king drove his sword through the youth’s heart and bending over him dragged him into the Madu maiden’s room.
Who acts: king, bending · What happens: drive, bend, drag · To what, where: sword, heart, king, room
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, bending), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drove | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | nsubj |
| 7 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sword | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 youth | case |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dragged | cc |
| 16 | bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 dragged | csubj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bending | obl |
| 19 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drove | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dragged | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 maiden | det |
| 23 | Madu | Madu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 maiden | compound |
| 24 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 room | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 maiden | case |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dragged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the king | king's sword | the youth's heart | minute | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme through heart=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | bend | gerund | over king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location | |||||
| 3 | drag | past | bending | king | the Madu maiden's room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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