Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 33
In the meantime the indignant Nadir Khan in vain looked all over his kingdom for his missing queen and servant.
Who acts: indignant Nadir Khan · What happens: look · To what, where: kingdom, meantime
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 (indignant Nadir Khan), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Khan | det |
| 5 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Khan | amod |
| 6 | Nadir | Nadir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Khan | compound |
| 7 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vain | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Khan | nmod |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 kingdom | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 queen | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 queen | nmod:poss |
| 17 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 queen | amod |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 servant | cc |
| 20 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 queen | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the indignant Nadir Khan in vain | Khan's kingdom | the meantime | for Khan's missing queen and servant | tree rules |
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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