Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 126
The governor put his head in a wooden box and sealing it sent it in charge of a police guard to the emperor’s camp.
Who acts: governor, sealing · What happens: put, seal, send, charge · To what, where: head, wooden box, charge, police guard
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: who acts (governor, sealing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 governor | det |
| 2 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | 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 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 box | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 8 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 box | amod |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 11 | sealing | seal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sent | csubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sealing | obj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 charge | case |
| 16 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 guard | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 guard | det |
| 19 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guard | compound |
| 20 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 charge | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 camp | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 emperor | det |
| 23 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 camp | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 emperor | case |
| 25 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the governor | Governor's head | a wooden box | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in box=Destination | |||
| 2 | seal | gerund | head | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | send | past | sealing | head | charge of a police guard | to the emperor's camp | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in charge=Destination | ||
| 4 | charge | a police guard | nom charge «act 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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