Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 14
The Nepal General then told the Swami that he had received orders to take him prisoner and humbly implored his pardon.
Who acts: Nepal, Swami · What happens: tell, receive, take, implore, pardon · To what, where: received orders, Swami, pardon · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Nepal, Swami), 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 Nepal | det |
| 2 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 3 | General | General | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Nepal | amod |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 told | advmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Swami | det |
| 7 | Swami | swami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 received | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | aux |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 orders | amod |
| 12 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 implored | cc |
| 18 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 19 implored | advmod |
| 19 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 implored | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Nepal | received orders | the Swami | then | tree rules | ||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect | Swami | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Swami | prisoner obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme prisoner=Destination | ||||
| 4 | implore | past | Swami's pardon | humbly property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | pardon | Swami | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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