Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 132
He sent a body of troops to Lahore to find out what had happened to it.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: send, find out, happen · To what, where: body, Lahore · 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 (Emperor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 troops | case |
| 6 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 body | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Lahore | case |
| 8 | Lahore | Lahore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 find | compound:prt |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happened | aux |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 find | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Emperor | a body of troops | Lahore | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to lahore=Destination | |||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | body | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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