Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 51
He had gone only one march when the news reached him that his missing queen and her lover had been found in the country of a neighbouring Raja, who was sending them back in chains to their master.
Who acts: Nadir, news, neighbouring Raja · What happens: go, reach, find, neighbour, send back · To what, where: one march, Nadir, missing queen, country, queen, chains
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, news, neighbouring Raja), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 march | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 march | nummod |
| 6 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 queen | nmod:poss |
| 14 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 queen | amod |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lover | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lover | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 queen | conj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 reached | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Raja | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Raja | det |
| 27 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 Raja | amod |
| 28 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 country | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sending | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 sending | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sending | aux |
| 32 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 Raja | acl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sending | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 sending | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 chains | case |
| 36 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sending | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 master | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 master | nmod:poss |
| 39 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 chains | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Nadir | one march | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the news | Nadir | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect · passive | Nadir's missing queen and news's lover | the country of a neighbouring Raja | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | send back | past · progressive | a neighbouring Raja | queen | chains to queen's master | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in chain=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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