Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 4
All night long the emperor and his nobles drank deep and revelled, while beautiful dancing girls sang to them lascivious songs.
Who acts: emperor, beautiful dancing girls · What happens: drink, revell, sing · To what, where: lascivious songs, nobles
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 (emperor, beautiful dancing girls), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 long | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 drank | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drank | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nobles | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 emperor | conj |
| 9 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drank | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 revelled | cc |
| 12 | revelled | revell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 deep | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sang | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 sang | mark |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girls | amod |
| 16 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girls | compound |
| 17 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sang | nsubj |
| 18 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drank | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sang | obl |
| 21 | lascivious | lascivious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 songs | amod |
| 22 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sang | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | the emperor and Emperor's nobles | deep, long property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | revell | participle | the emperor and Emperor's nobles not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | beautiful dancing girls | lascivious songs | nobles = noble | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to they=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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