Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 11
The Maharaja was alarmed and sent an army to take prisoner the seditious anchorite and bring him to Kathmandu, the chief town of Nepal.
What happens: alarm, send, take, bring · To what, where: Maharaja, army, prisoner, Kathmandu
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 Maharaja | det |
| 2 | Maharaja | Maharaja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sent | cc |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 alarmed | conj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 11 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 anchorite | det |
| 13 | seditious | seditious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 anchorite | amod |
| 14 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bring | cc |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Kathmandu | case |
| 19 | Kathmandu | Kathmandu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 town | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 22 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 town | amod |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Kathmandu | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Nepal | case |
| 25 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 town | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | the Maharaja | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | send | participle | a army | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | prisoner | the seditious anchorite obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument prisoner=Theme anchorite=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | Maharaja | Kathmandu | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to kathmandu=Destination |
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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