Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 129
The police guard were so alarmed at the strange behaviour of the head that they dared neither return to Larkana nor go on to Delhi.
Who acts: police · What happens: guard, alarm, dare, go on · To what, where: police, strange behaviour, return, Delhi
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), 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 police | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | guard | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 police | acl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 alarmed | advmod |
| 6 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 behaviour | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 behaviour | det |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 behaviour | amod |
| 10 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alarmed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 behaviour | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 dared | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dared | nsubj |
| 16 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 alarmed | advcl |
| 17 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 return | det |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dared | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Larkana | case |
| 20 | Larkana | Larkana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 return | nmod |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 go | cc |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dared | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Delhi | case |
| 25 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | present | the police not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | alarm | past · passive | the police | the strange behaviour of the head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | dare | past | police | neither return | to Larkana | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Recipient | |||
| 4 | go on | infinitive | police not said here | Delhi | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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