Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 134
At last hearing of the new shrine, they went there and extorted from its guardians the whole truth.
Who acts: troops, new shrine · What happens: go, extort, hear · To what, where: last hearing, whole truth, guardians
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 (troops, new shrine), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 hearing | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hearing | amod |
| 3 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shrine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shrine | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shrine | amod |
| 7 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hearing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hearing | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 extorted | cc |
| 13 | extorted | extort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 guardians | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 guardians | nmod:poss |
| 16 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 extorted | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 truth | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 truth | amod |
| 19 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 extorted | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | troops | last hearing of the new shrine; there | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at hearing=Location | ||||
| 2 | extort | participle | troops not said here | the whole truth | shrine's guardians | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent truth=Theme from guardian=Source | |||
| 3 | hear | the new shrine | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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