Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 49
Cruelty could go no further; and the broken-hearted lover ascending the minaret, took a last view of the splendid panorama unrolled before his eyes and plunged head first from the pinnacle.
Who acts: Cruelty, broken hearted lover · What happens: go, break, ascend, take, unroll, plunge · To what, where: minaret, last view, pinnacle, splendid panorama
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cruelty, broken hearted lover), 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 | Cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 further | advmod |
| 5 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 go | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lover | det |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lover | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 broken | punct |
| 11 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lover | amod |
| 12 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 13 | ascending | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 lover | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 minaret | det |
| 15 | minaret | minaret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ascending | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lover | punct |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 view | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 view | amod |
| 20 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 panorama | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 panorama | det |
| 23 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 panorama | amod |
| 24 | panorama | panorama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 view | nmod |
| 25 | unrolled | unroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 panorama | acl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 unrolled | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 head | cc |
| 30 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 head | amod |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 panorama | conj |
| 32 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 took | advmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 pinnacle | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pinnacle | det |
| 35 | pinnacle | pinnacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | could | Cruelty | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | ascend | gerund | the broken hearted lover not said here | the minaret | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme minaret=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the broken hearted lover | a last view of the splendid panorama and plunged head | the pinnacle | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent view=Theme from pinnacle=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | unroll | participle | the splendid panorama and plunged head not said here | before lover's eyes | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | plunge | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 7 | view | the splendid panorama and plunged head | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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