Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 47
So keeping his right leg on the shield, he kept his left leg as high as he could, to save it from the flames.
Who acts: Motishah · What happens: keep, save · To what, where: right leg, shield, left leg, heat, flames
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 kept | advmod |
| 2 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kept | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 leg | nmod:poss |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leg | amod |
| 5 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeping | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shield | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shield | det |
| 8 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeping | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 leg | nmod:poss |
| 13 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leg | amod |
| 14 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 high | advmod |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kept | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 high | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 save | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 save | mark |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kept | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 save | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 flames | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flames | det |
| 26 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 save | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | Motishah not said here | Motishah's right leg | the shield | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leg=Theme on shield=Location | |||
| 2 | keep | past | Motishah | Motishah's left leg | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | Motishah not said here | heat | the flames | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from flame=Source |
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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