Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 29
At noon the king held a great parade; but when he came to count his warriors, he found that they barely numbered 6,000.
Who acts: king · What happens: hold, come, count, find, number · To what, where: great parade, warriors, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 noon | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 parade | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parade | amod |
| 8 | parade | parade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 count | mark |
| 15 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 17 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 count | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 numbered | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 numbered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 24 numbered | advmod |
| 24 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 found | ccomp |
| 25 | 6,000 | 6000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 numbered | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the king | a great parade | noon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parade=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | count | to-infinitive | King not said here | King's warriors | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | King | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | number | participle · passive | chiefs = chief | 6,000 obj; barely property | tree rules |
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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