Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 51
He then swung on his turban to and fro until he was able to swing into one of the windows of the upper storey of the palace.
Who acts: Mansing · What happens: swing, fro, be · To what, where: turban
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swung | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 swung | advmod |
| 3 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 turban | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 turban | nmod:poss |
| 6 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swung | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 swung | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fro | cc |
| 9 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swung | conj |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 able | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 able | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fro | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 swing | mark |
| 15 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 swing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 windows | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 windows | det |
| 20 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 storey | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 storey | det |
| 23 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 storey | amod |
| 24 | storey | storey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 windows | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 storey | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | Mansing | Mansing's turban | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on turban=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | Mansing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Mansing | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swing | to-infinitive | Mansing not said here | into one of the windows of the upper storey of the palace | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory |
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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