Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 10
At last the king lost all patience and boxing his wife’s ears told her that if she thought so much of the emperor’s camp, she had better go there.
Who acts: patience, queen · What happens: lose, box, tell, think, have, go · To what, where: ears, queen, much · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (patience, queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 patience | det |
| 7 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 boxing | cc |
| 9 | boxing | box | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 patience | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 boxing | obj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | advcl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thought | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 camp | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 emperor | det |
| 24 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 camp | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 emperor | case |
| 26 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 much | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thought | conj |
| 30 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 had | advmod |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 had | xcomp |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 go | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | at the last king | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at king=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | box | gerund | all patience not said here | patience's wife's ears | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | all patience | queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past | queen | much of the emperor's camp | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | queen | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | queen not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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