Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 139
Convinced of the miracle, the devout emperor felt sure that he had killed a Saint.
Who acts: devout emperor · What happens: feel, kill · To what, where: Emperor
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 (devout 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 | Convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 miracle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miracle | det |
| 4 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Convinced | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 7 | devout | devout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 emperor | amod |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Convinced | conj |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 killed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 killed | aux |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 felt | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Saint | det |
| 16 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 killed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Convinced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the devout emperor | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Emperor | a Saint obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer saint=Result |
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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