Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 32
The queen and her lover, fearing that they might themselves be detained and given over to Nadir Khan, fled from Sind pretending that they were going on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who acts: queen · What happens: fear, detain, give over, flee, pretend, go · To what, where: queen, Nadir, Sind, pilgrimage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lover | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lover | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queen | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fearing | punct |
| 7 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 queen | acl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 detained | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 detained | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 detained | aux |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 detained | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 detained | aux:pass |
| 13 | detained | detain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fearing | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 given | cc |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 detained | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 given | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Nadir | case |
| 18 | Nadir | Nadir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 19 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nadir | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 queen | punct |
| 21 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Sind | case |
| 23 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | obl |
| 24 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 fled | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 going | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 going | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 going | aux |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 pretending | ccomp |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 pilgrimage | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 pilgrimage | det |
| 31 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 going | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Mecca | case |
| 33 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 pilgrimage | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | the queen and Bald's lover not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | detain | might · passive | queen | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give over | participle | Nadir | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nadir=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | flee | past | the queen and Bald's lover | Sind | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | pretend | gerund | the queen and Bald's lover not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | queen | a pilgrimage to Mecca | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on pilgrimage=Location |
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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