Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 55
His horsemen rode out and seized Murad the Bald and at the king’s orders, hanged him from the battlements of his own fortress.
Who acts: horsemen, king · What happens: ride out, seize, hange, order · To what, where: Murad, Mahomed, battlements
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 (horsemen, king), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horsemen | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 rode | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 seized | cc |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 7 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bald | det |
| 9 | Bald | Bald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Murad | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 orders | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 orders | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 orders | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Murad | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hanged | punct |
| 17 | hanged | hange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hanged | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 battlements | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 battlements | det |
| 21 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hanged | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fortress | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fortress | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fortress | amod |
| 25 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 battlements | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride out | past | Mahomed's horsemen | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | Mahomed's horsemen not said here | Murad and the king's orders | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murad=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hange | past | Mahomed's horsemen not said here | Mahomed | the battlements of Mahomed's own fortress | tree rules | |||
| 4 | order | the king | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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