Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 58
Poor Motishah’s right leg was by this time all but burnt off; but when he saw the king coming back he put his left leg on the shield and over his shoulders the king climbed across the fire trench.
Who acts: right leg, Mansing, king · What happens: be, burnt off, see, come back, put, climb · To what, where: time, left leg, shield, shoulders
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 (right leg, Mansing, king), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Motishah | amod |
| 2 | Motishah | Motishah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leg | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Motishah | case |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leg | amod |
| 5 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | cop |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 burnt | advmod |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 burnt | cc |
| 12 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 burnt | compound:prt |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | nsubj |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 put | advcl |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 coming | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | nsubj |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 leg | nmod:poss |
| 26 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 leg | amod |
| 27 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 shield | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shield | det |
| 30 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 climbed | cc |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 shoulders | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 34 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 climbed | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 climbed | nsubj |
| 37 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 38 | across | across | ADP | _ | 41 trench | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 trench | det |
| 40 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trench | compound |
| 41 | trench | trench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 climbed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Poor Motishah's right leg | by this time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burnt off | participle | this time not said here | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Mansing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come back | gerund | the king not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put | past | the king | Mansing's left leg | the shield | Mansing nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme on shield=Destination | ||
| 6 | climb | past | the king | Mansing's shoulders | across the fire trench | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Initial_Location across trench=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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