Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 57

Tying a rope round her arms and legs and throwing her like a bundle across his back, he swung back to the palm tree by his turban and slid to the ground.

Who acts: Mansing · What happens: tie, throw, swing back, slide · To what, where: rope, queen, back, palm tree, ground

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	Tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 swung	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rope	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tying	obj
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tying	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 legs	cc
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 arms	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 throwing	cc
10	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tying	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 throwing	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 bundle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bundle	det
14	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throwing	obl
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throwing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tying	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 swung	nsubj
20	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 swung	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
24	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tree	compound
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swung	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 turban	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 turban	nmod:poss
28	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tree	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slid	cc
30	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 swung	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slid	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	gerund	Mansing not said here	a rope		round queen's arms and legs	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
2	throw	gerund	Mansing not said here	queen	Mansing's back	like a bundle	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	swing back	past	Mansing		the palm tree by Mansing's turban		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to tree=Trajectory
4	slide	past	Mansing not said here		the ground		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination

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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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 57