Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 47
Forgetting all his master’s kindness and favours, he thought to himself that there now stretched in front of him an open and easy road to a throne.
Who acts: Satan · What happens: forget, think, stretch · To what, where: kindness, Satan, open road, throne · 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 (Satan), 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 | Forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | advcl |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 master | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 master | case |
| 6 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Forgetting | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 favours | cc |
| 8 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kindness | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forgetting | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 stretched | mark |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stretched | advmod |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stretched | advmod |
| 17 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 front | case |
| 19 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stretched | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 front | nmod |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 road | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 easy | cc |
| 25 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 open | conj |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stretched | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 throne | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 throne | det |
| 29 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stretched | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | gerund | Satan not said here | Satan's master's kindness and favours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Satan | Satan | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | participle | a open road | a throne | there | now | in front of Satan | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Patient in front=Topic to throne=Recipient |
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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