Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 30
On hearing this, the king’s minister Motishah told him that he could do nothing with only 6,000 men against the 120,000 men led by the emperor.
Who acts: minister, King · What happens: hear, tell, do, lead · To what, where: this, King, nothing, 120,000 men · 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 (minister, 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 told | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 minister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 9 | Motishah | Motishah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 minister | appos |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 6,000 | advmod |
| 19 | 6,000 | 6000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 men | nummod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | obl |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 men | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 men | det |
| 23 | 120,000 | 120000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 men | nummod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 men | nmod |
| 25 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 men | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 emperor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 emperor | det |
| 28 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 led | obl:agent |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the king's minister not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the king's minister | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | could | King | nothing | with 6,000 men against the 120,000 men | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | lead | participle | the 120,000 men not said here | the emperor obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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