Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 80
Entrenching himself behind the river Phito, he withstood for some months the imperial forces.
Who acts: Beg · What happens: entrench, withstand · To what, where: Beg, river, imperial forces
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 (Beg), 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 | Entrenching | entrench | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 withstood | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Entrenching | obj |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Entrenching | obl |
| 6 | Phito | Phito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 river | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Entrenching | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 withstood | nsubj |
| 9 | withstood | withstand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 months | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 months | det |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 withstood | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forces | det |
| 14 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forces | amod |
| 15 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 withstood | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 withstood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrench | gerund | Beg not said here | Beg | the river | tree rules | |||
| 2 | withstand | past | Beg | the imperial forces | month | 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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