Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 18
They did not disturb him but went straight to the Maharaja, to whom they told all that had happened.
Who acts: General, that · What happens: not disturb, go, tell, happen · To what, where: Swami, Maharaja · 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 (General, that), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disturb | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disturb | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 disturb | advmod |
| 4 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disturb | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disturb | conj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 Maharaja | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Maharaja | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Maharaja | det |
| 11 | Maharaja | Maharaja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 told | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disturb | parataxis |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 happened | det:predet |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 told | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disturb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not disturb | past · do-support | General | Swami | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | General not said here | the Maharaja | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to maharaja=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | General | whom obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to whom=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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