Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 25
He sent for her; but as she did not come he called her maids and forced from their trembling lips the truth.
Who acts: Emperor, queen · What happens: send, not come, call, force · To what, where: maids, trembling lips · 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, 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 | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 come | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 maids | nmod:poss |
| 15 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 called | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forced | cc |
| 17 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 called | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 lips | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 20 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lips | compound |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 forced | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 truth | det |
| 23 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lips | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Emperor | for queen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not come | past · do-support | queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | past | Emperor | queen's maids | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | force | participle | Emperor not said here | players's trembling lips and the truth | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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