Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 27
When they had assembled, he told them that the emperor had seduced his queen and then like a coward had run away to Delhi.
Who acts: King · What happens: assemble, tell, seduce, run away · To what, where: chiefs, emperor · 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 assembled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assembled | aux |
| 4 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 assembled | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 seduced | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 emperor | det |
| 11 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seduced | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seduced | aux |
| 13 | seduced | seduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 queen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seduced | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 run | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 run | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 coward | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coward | det |
| 20 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obl |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 seduced | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 run | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Delhi | case |
| 25 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obl:agent |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · perfect · passive | chiefs = chief | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | King | chiefs = chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seduce | past · perfect · passive | the emperor | King's queen obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run away | past · perfect | then | like a coward; Delhi obl:agent; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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