Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 127
When the police guard reached Lahore they out of curiosity opened the box, in order to see what the head looked like.
Who acts: police guard, ’s, head · What happens: reach, open, see, look like · To what, where: Lahore, box · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (police guard, ’s, head), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guard | det |
| 3 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guard | compound |
| 4 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | advcl |
| 6 | Lahore | Lahore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 curiosity | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 curiosity | case |
| 10 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 they | nmod |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 box | det |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 see | mark |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 in | fixed |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 opened | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 looked | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 looked | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the police guard | Lahore | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lahore=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | ’s = ' | the box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | ’s = ' not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | look like | past | the head | what obj | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |
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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