Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 21
The emperor had no wish to quarrel with King Mansing of Sirohi, but having made the queen a promise, he had to keep it.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: have, quarrel, make, keep · To what, where: wish, promise, queen
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 | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 wish | det |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 quarrel | mark |
| 7 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Mansing | case |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mansing | compound |
| 10 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quarrel | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Sirohi | case |
| 12 | Sirohi | Sirohi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mansing | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 15 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 made | aux |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 queen | det |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 promise | det |
| 20 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 keep | mark |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 had | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 keep | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the emperor | no wish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | quarrel | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | no wish not said here | with King Mansing of Sirohi | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mansing=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | make | gerund · perfect | the emperor not said here | a promise | the queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset queen=Beneficiary promise=Product | |||
| 4 | have | past | Emperor | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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