Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 14
He was listening to the singing of his dancing girls and the music of his players; but as soon as he learnt that the queen was outside, he stopped the music and the singing and had the queen brought before him with the greatest respect.
Who acts: Emperor, queen · What happens: listen, learn, be, stop, have, bring · To what, where: music, queen, dancing girls
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 listening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listening | aux |
| 3 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 singing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 singing | det |
| 6 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listening | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 girls | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 girls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 girls | compound |
| 10 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 singing | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 music | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 music | det |
| 13 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 girls | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 players | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 players | nmod:poss |
| 16 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 music | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 learnt | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 learnt | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 learnt | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 learnt | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 learnt | nsubj |
| 23 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listening | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 outside | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 queen | det |
| 26 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 outside | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 outside | cop |
| 28 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 23 learnt | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stopped | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stopped | nsubj |
| 31 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 learnt | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 music | det |
| 33 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stopped | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 singing | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 singing | det |
| 36 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 music | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 had | cc |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 stopped | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 queen | det |
| 40 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obj |
| 41 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 queen | acl |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 brought | obl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 respect | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 respect | det |
| 46 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 47 respect | amod |
| 47 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 brought | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · progressive | Emperor | to the singing of Emperor's dancing girls and the music of Emperor's players | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to singing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | Emperor | soon property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the queen | outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | Emperor | the music and the singing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector music=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Emperor not said here | the queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | ||||
| 6 | bring | participle | the queen not said here | before Emperor | with the greatest respect | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination | |||
| 7 | sing | Emperor's dancing girls and the music of Emperor's players | nom singing «act transitive»: of=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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