Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 95
The guards seized the poor old minister and took him to prison.
Who acts: guards · What happens: seize, take · To what, where: poor old minister, minister, prison
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 (guards), 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 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 minister | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 minister | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 minister | amod |
| 7 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 prison | case |
| 12 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the guards | the poor old minister | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the guards not said here | minister | prison | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to prison=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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