Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 125
After a mighty resistance the Saint was taken captive and executed.
What happens: take, execute · To what, where: Saint
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 resistance | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 resistance | det |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 resistance | amod |
| 4 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Saint | det |
| 6 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 taken | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 executed | cc |
| 11 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 taken | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the Saint | after a mighty resistance | captive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | execute | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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