Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 36
From her they learnt that the emperor fearing a rescue, had dug round the queen’s palace no less than seven trenches.
Who acts: warriors, emperor · What happens: learn, fear, dig · To what, where: rescue, seven trenches
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 (warriors, emperor), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 her | case |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learnt | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learnt | nsubj |
| 4 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 fearing | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 emperor | det |
| 7 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fearing | nsubj |
| 8 | fearing | fear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 learnt | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rescue | det |
| 10 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fearing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dug | punct |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dug | aux |
| 13 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 learnt | conj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 queen | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dug | obl |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 less | advmod |
| 20 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 22 seven | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 less | fixed |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 trenches | nummod |
| 23 | trenches | trench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dug | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | warriors = warrior | from Delhi | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=Source | ||||
| 2 | fear | gerund | the emperor | a rescue | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rescue=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dig | past · perfect | warriors = warrior not said here | seven trenches | round the queen's palace | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trench=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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