Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 44
But the king’s guards before going home had filled it with fresh wood and it was burning fiercely.
Who acts: guards, turban · What happens: go, fill, burn · To what, where: guards
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 (guards, turban), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 filled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guards | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 guards | acl |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 filled | aux |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 filled | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wood | amod |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 burning | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 burning | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 burning | aux |
| 18 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 filled | conj |
| 19 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 18 burning | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | the king's guards not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · perfect · passive | the king's guards | with fresh wood; turban obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | past · progressive | turban | fiercely property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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