Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 48
He supported himself on his spear while the king sprang on his shoulders and leapt to the far side of the trench.
Who acts: Motishah, king · What happens: support, spring, leapt · To what, where: Motishah, spear, 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, king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 supported | nsubj |
| 2 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 supported | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 spear | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 supported | obl |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 sprang | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprang | nsubj |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 supported | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shoulders | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sprang | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leapt | cc |
| 15 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sprang | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 18 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 side | amod |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leapt | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 trench | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trench | det |
| 22 | trench | trench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | past | Motishah | Motishah | Motishah's spear | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | spring | past | the king | Motishah's shoulders | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | leapt | infinitive | the king not said here | to the far side of the trench | 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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