Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 101
The emperor was very angry when he heard that Mansing had killed the brave Musulman noble.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: be, hear, kill · To what, where: Mansing · 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 (emperor), 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 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 heard | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 killed | mark |
| 10 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | aux |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 noble | det |
| 14 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 noble | amod |
| 15 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 noble | compound |
| 16 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the emperor | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Emperor | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Mansing | the brave Musulman noble obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer noble=Result |
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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