Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 83
When the king landed and tried to mount the demon horse, the minister drew his sword and with a single stroke cut its head off.
Who acts: king, minister · What happens: land, try, mount, draw, cut off · To what, where: demon horse, sword, head
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, minister), 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 | 4 landed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 landed | nsubj |
| 4 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 mount | mark |
| 8 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 10 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | compound |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mount | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 minister | det |
| 14 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cut | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 stroke | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stroke | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stroke | amod |
| 22 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | obl |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drew | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 cut | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | the king | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | past | the king not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | mount not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the demon horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | the minister | minister's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cut off | past | the minister not said here | stroke's head | with a single stroke | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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