Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 91
He saw the snake come out of his hiding place in the roof, wriggle along a beam and then drop poison on the face of the sleeping queen.
Who acts: minister, snake · What happens: see, come out, wriggle, drop · To what, where: snake, hiding place, poison, face
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, snake), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | compound |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wriggle | punct |
| 15 | wriggle | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 beam | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 beam | det |
| 18 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wriggle | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drop | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 drop | advmod |
| 21 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 22 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drop | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 face | det |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drop | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 queen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 queen | det |
| 28 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 queen | compound |
| 29 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 face | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | minister | the snake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come out | infinitive | the snake not said here | minister's hiding place in the roof | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient place=Result | ||||
| 3 | wriggle | infinitive | the snake not said here | along a beam | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | drop | present | minister not said here | poison | the face of the sleeping queen | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme on face=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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