Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 40
On coming to the wall, Motishah climbed on to the king’s shoulders and thence on to the wall.
Who acts: Motishah · What happens: come, climb · To what, where: wall, shoulders
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 (Motishah), 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 coming | mark |
| 2 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 climbed | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coming | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 coming | punct |
| 7 | Motishah | Motishah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | nsubj |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 climbed | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shoulders | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 climbed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 on | cc |
| 16 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 17 on | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 climbed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 wall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wall | det |
| 20 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 on | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | Motishah not said here | the wall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | climb | past | Motishah | the king's shoulders | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Destination |
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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