Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 28
The chiefs and nobles all vowed vengeance and bade the king call out his troops.
Who acts: chiefs, king · What happens: vow, call out · To what, where: vengeance, troops
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 (chiefs, 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vowed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 nobles | cc |
| 4 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chiefs | conj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 vowed | advmod |
| 6 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vowed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bade | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vengeance | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | nsubj |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 vowed | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 call | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 troops | nmod:poss |
| 15 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 call | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | the chiefs and nobles | vengeance and bade | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | infinitive | the king | King's troops | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent troops=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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