Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 2
He was greatly addicted to opium, of which he used to drink daily vast quantities from the hand of his favourite queen.
Who acts: Mansing · What happens: addict, use, drink · To what, where: Mansing, vast quantities, hand
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 addicted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 addicted | aux:pass |
| 3 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 4 addicted | advmod |
| 4 | addicted | addict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 opium | case |
| 6 | opium | opium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addicted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 used | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 used | nsubj |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 addicted | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drink | mark |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 used | xcomp |
| 14 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 15 vast | advmod |
| 15 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 quantities | amod |
| 16 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drink | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hand | det |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drink | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 queen | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 queen | nmod:poss |
| 22 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 queen | amod |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hand | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 addicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | addict | past · passive | Mansing | to opium; greatly property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient to opium=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Mansing | which obl | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | Mansing not said here | vast quantities | the hand of Mansing's favourite queen | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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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