Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 87
The minister at once pushed past the king and with a gloved hand, seized the golden plate and threw it far away into a running stream.
Who acts: minister · What happens: push, glove, seize, throw, run · To what, where: golden plate, plate, running stream
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushed | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 pushed | obl |
| 5 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hand | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 12 | gloved | glove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hand | amod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pushed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plate | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plate | amod |
| 18 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 threw | cc |
| 20 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seized | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 threw | obj |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 threw | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 stream | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 stream | det |
| 26 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 stream | amod |
| 27 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 threw | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | the minister | past the king and a gloved hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past king=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | glove | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seize | past | the minister not said here | the golden plate | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | the minister not said here | plate | into a running stream result; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into stream=Result | |||
| 5 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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