Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 35
Nadir Khan summoned his army and marching to the frontier, demanded the surrender of the queen and her lover, the diamond and the manuscript.
Who acts: Nadir · What happens: summon, march, demand, surrender · To what, where: army, surrender, queen
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 (Nadir), 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 | Nadir | Nadir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nadir | flat |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 army | nmod:poss |
| 5 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 marching | cc |
| 7 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 army | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 frontier | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 frontier | det |
| 10 | frontier | frontier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marching | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 demanded | punct |
| 12 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 surrender | det |
| 14 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 demanded | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 queen | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 surrender | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lover | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lover | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 queen | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 diamond | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 diamond | det |
| 23 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 queen | appos |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 manuscript | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 manuscript | det |
| 26 | manuscript | manuscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 diamond | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | Nadir | Nadir's army | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | march | gerund | Nadir not said here | to the frontier result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to frontier=Result | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | Nadir not said here | the surrender of the queen and vain's lover | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme surrender=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | surrender | the queen and vain's lover | nom surrender «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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