Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 1
King Mansing of Sirohi was a very brave Rajput; but he had one fault.
Who acts: King Mansing, Mansing · What happens: be, have · To what, where: brave Rajput, one fault
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Mansing, Mansing), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mansing | compound |
| 2 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rajput | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Sirohi | case |
| 4 | Sirohi | Sirohi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mansing | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Rajput | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Rajput | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 brave | advmod |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Rajput | amod |
| 9 | Rajput | rajput | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Rajput | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fault | nummod |
| 15 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rajput | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | King Mansing of Sirohi | a brave Rajput | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Mansing | one fault | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=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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