Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 53
If someone goes up to the horse just before the king mounts it and cuts its head off, the king will be saved.
Who acts: someone, king · What happens: go up, mount, cut off, save · To what, where: way, head, 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 (someone, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 goes | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 goes | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 mounts | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 mounts | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounts | nsubj |
| 12 | mounts | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mounts | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cuts | cc |
| 15 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cuts | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 cuts | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saved | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saved | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 saved | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 saved | aux:pass |
| 24 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cuts | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | present | someone | to the horse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mount | present | the king | way | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cut off | present | someone not said here | way's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | save | future · passive | the king | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/11/53/