Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 26
The king said nothing, but swallowing a prodigious quantity of opium, he put on his armour and summoned his chiefs and nobles.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, swallow, put, summon · To what, where: nothing, prodigious quantity, armour, chiefs · 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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 7 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 put | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 quantity | det |
| 9 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 quantity | amod |
| 10 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swallowing | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 opium | case |
| 12 | opium | opium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quantity | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swallowing | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 armour | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 armour | nmod:poss |
| 18 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 summoned | cc |
| 20 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 summoned | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 nobles | cc |
| 24 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 chiefs | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | swallow | gerund | King not said here | a prodigious quantity of opium | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | past | King | King's armour | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on armour=Destination | ||||
| 4 | summon | past | King not said here | King's chiefs and nobles | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient |
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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