Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 138
The troops carried away box and head and showed them to Aurangzeb.
Who acts: troops · What happens: carry away, show · To what, where: box, troops, Aurangzeb
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), 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 troops | det |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 carried | advmod |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 head | cc |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 showed | cc |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Aurangzeb | case |
| 12 | Aurangzeb | Aurangzeb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past | the troops | box and head | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past | the troops not said here | troops | Aurangzeb | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to aurangzeb=Recipient |
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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