Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 50
Mansing climbed it and reaching the top, tied his turban to one of the branches.
Who acts: Mansing · What happens: climb, reach, tie · To what, where: palace, top, turban, one
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 (Mansing), 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 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 climbed | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 reaching | cc |
| 5 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 climbed | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reaching | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tied | punct |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 turban | nmod:poss |
| 11 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 branches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branches | det |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Mansing | palace | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | gerund | Mansing not said here | the top | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tie | past | Mansing not said here | Mansing's turban | one of the branches | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent turban=Patient to one=Co-Patient |
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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