Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 14
The Emperor Humayun, defeated in battle after battle by the great Afghan soldier Sher Shah, fled to Sind.
Who acts: Emperor Humayun · What happens: defeat, flee, sind · To what, where: Emperor Humayun, battle
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 Humayun), 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 | 3 Humayun | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Humayun | compound |
| 3 | Humayun | Humayun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 defeated | punct |
| 5 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Humayun | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 battle | case |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defeated | obl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 battle | case |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defeated | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 soldier | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldier | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soldier | amod |
| 13 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soldier | amod |
| 14 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defeated | obl |
| 15 | Sher | Sher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 soldier | appos |
| 16 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sher | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Humayun | punct |
| 18 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 Sind | mark |
| 20 | Sind | sind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fled | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | participle | the Emperor Humayun not said here | battle | after battle | by the great Afghan soldier | tree rules | ||
| 2 | flee | past | the Emperor Humayun | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sind | to-infinitive | the Emperor Humayun not said here | tree rules |
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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