Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 39
That night the king and Motishah disguised as mendicants, but with swords and shields hidden beneath their yellow robes sallied forth to the queen’s palace.
Who acts: king, swords · What happens: disguise, hide, sally · To what, where: swords, yellow robes
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, swords), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disguised | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disguised | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Motishah | cc |
| 6 | Motishah | Motishah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 7 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 mendicants | case |
| 9 | mendicants | mendicant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 disguised | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sallied | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 sallied | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 swords | case |
| 13 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sallied | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shields | cc |
| 15 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 swords | conj |
| 16 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 swords | acl |
| 17 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 20 robes | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 robes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 robes | amod |
| 20 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hidden | obl |
| 21 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 disguised | conj |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 sallied | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 queen | det |
| 25 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 queen | case |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sallied | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past | the king and Motishah | night | as mendicants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hide | participle | swords and shields not said here | swords's yellow robes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath robe=Location | ||||
| 3 | sally | past | swords and shields | to the queen's palace; forth 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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