Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 318
“Why did you strike me?” asked the dying king.
Who acts: you, dying king · What happens: strike, ask, die · To what, where: dying king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, dying 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 strike | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strike | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 strike | nsubj |
| 5 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 strike | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 king | amod |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike in a quote | past · do-support | you | the dying king = king | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the dying king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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