Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 5
The noise of the music and the dancing could be heard from King Mansing’s palace; and all one night, as the king slept, his favourite queen sat up and listened to it.
Who acts: king, favourite queen, music · What happens: hear, sleep, sit up, listen, noise · To what, where: noise, palace
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 (king, favourite queen, music), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 noise | det |
| 2 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 music | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 music | det |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 noise | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dancing | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dancing | det |
| 8 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 music | conj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 night | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 night | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 night | det |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 night | nummod |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 slept | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 slept | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 slept | nsubj |
| 26 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sat | punct |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 queen | nmod:poss |
| 29 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 queen | amod |
| 30 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sat | nsubj |
| 31 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 slept | parataxis |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 sat | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 listened | cc |
| 34 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sat | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 listened | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could · passive | the noise of the music and the dancing | King's palace | night | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from palace=Source | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | the king | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit up | past | King's favourite queen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | participle | King's favourite queen not said here | noise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | noise | the music and the dancing | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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