Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 61
Mansing swam with his queen on his back across the six water trenches.
Who acts: Mansing · What happens: swim · To what, where: back
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 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 queen | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 queen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swam | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swam | obl |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 trenches | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trenches | det |
| 11 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 trenches | nummod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trenches | compound |
| 13 | trenches | trench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swam | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | Mansing | Mansing's back | with Mansing's queen; across the six water trenches | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=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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