Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 64
Dom Pedro flew into a rage, sacked Tatta, killed 800 people, took away two millions sterling and left the town in flames.
Who acts: Dom · What happens: fly, sack, kill, take away, leave · To what, where: rage, Tatta, 800 people, millions sterling, town, flames
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 (Dom), 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 | Dom | Dom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dom | flat |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 rage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rage | det |
| 6 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sacked | punct |
| 8 | sacked | sack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 9 | Tatta | Tatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sacked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sacked | conj |
| 12 | 800 | 800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 people | nummod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 killed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 millions | nummod |
| 18 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sterling | compound |
| 19 | sterling | sterling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 flames | case |
| 25 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 left | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Dom | into a rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result | ||||
| 2 | sack | past | Dom not said here | Tatta | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tatta=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | Dom not said here | 800 people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take away | past | Dom not said here | millions sterling | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sterling=Theme | |||
| 5 | leave | past | Dom not said here | the town | flames | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent town=Theme in flame=Location |
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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