Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 54
At first he felt so angry that he would have killed them both, as they slept.
Who acts: Mansing, legs · What happens: feel, kill, sleep · To what, where: Mansing
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, legs), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 felt | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 killed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 killed | aux |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 angry | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | obj |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 them | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slept | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 slept | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slept | nsubj |
| 17 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Mansing | angry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kill | would · perfect · passive | Mansing | legs = leg obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | legs = leg | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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