Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 109
He drew his sword, cut off the little boy’s head and sprinkled his blood over the marble body.
Who acts: king · What happens: draw, cut off, sprinkle · To what, where: sword, head, blood, marble body
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drew | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boy | amod |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 boy | case |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sprinkled | cc |
| 14 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 blood | nmod:poss |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprinkled | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 19 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | compound |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprinkled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | king | king's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | king not said here | the little boy's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sprinkle | past | king not said here | king's blood | the marble body | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme over body=Destination |
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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