Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 47
When he lands three days hence, he will be met by his officers and his troops, his elephants, his horses and his chariots.
Who acts: king, officers · What happens: land, meet · To what, where: king
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, officers), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 lands | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lands | nsubj |
| 3 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | advcl |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hence | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 3 lands | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lands | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 met | aux:pass |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 officers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 officers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 met | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 troops | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 troops | nmod:poss |
| 17 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 officers | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 elephants | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 elephants | nmod:poss |
| 20 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 officers | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 horses | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 officers | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 chariots | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 chariots | nmod:poss |
| 26 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 officers | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | present | king | hence property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | future · passive | king's officers and king's troops and king's elephants and king's horses and king's chariots | king | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-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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