Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 60
No sooner had Mansing reached safety than poor Motishah fainted and falling into the trench was burnt to ashes.
Who acts: Mansing, poor Motishah, falling · What happens: have, reach, faint, fall, burnt · To what, where: safety, trench
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, poor Motishah, falling), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 6 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 fainted | mark |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Motishah | amod |
| 9 | Motishah | Motishah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fainted | nsubj |
| 10 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 burnt | cc |
| 12 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 burnt | csubj:pass |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 trench | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trench | det |
| 15 | trench | trench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 falling | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 burnt | aux:pass |
| 17 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fainted | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ashes | case |
| 19 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 burnt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | Mansing | safety | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent safety=Theme | ||||
| 3 | faint | past | poor Motishah | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | fall | gerund | into the trench result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trench=Result | |||||
| 5 | burnt | past · passive | falling | to ashes | tree rules |
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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