Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 49
Directly the king is on its back, it will fly away with him into the air and will then drown him by flinging him into the sea.”
Who acts: king, demon · What happens: be, fly away, drown, fling · To what, where: back, air, king, sea
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, demon), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 7 back | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 back | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 back | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fly | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fly | aux |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 fly | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fly | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drown | cc |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 drown | aux |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 drown | advmod |
| 21 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fly | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drown | obj |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 flinging | mark |
| 24 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 drown | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flinging | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flinging | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fly | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the king | demon's back | demon nmod:poss; directly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly away | future | demon | into the air result; with king; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 3 | drown | future | demon not said here | king | then | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | fling | gerund | demon not said here | king | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into sea=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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