Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 104
At last the emperor challenged the king to a duel, but the emperor was no match for the Rajput king.
Who acts: last emperor, emperor · What happens: challenge, be · To what, where: king, match
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 (last emperor, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 emperor | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 challenged | nsubj |
| 5 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 challenged | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 duel | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 duel | det |
| 10 | duel | duel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 challenged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 match | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 match | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 emperor | det |
| 14 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 match | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 match | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 match | det |
| 17 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 challenged | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 20 | Rajput | Rajput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 king | compound |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 match | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 challenged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | challenge | past | the last emperor | the king | to a duel | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the emperor | no match | for the Rajput king | tree rules |
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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