Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 62
By the aid of Motishah’s turban, which still hung from the wall, he climbed over it and pulled his wife after him.
Who acts: Mansing · What happens: hang, climb, pull · To what, where: turban, wall, wife
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 aid | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 aid | det |
| 3 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 turban | case |
| 5 | Motishah | Motishah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 turban | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Motishah | case |
| 7 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aid | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hung | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 hung | obj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 hung | advmod |
| 11 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turban | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hung | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 aid | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 climbed | nsubj |
| 17 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 climbed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pulled | cc |
| 21 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 climbed | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | obj |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pulled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | Motishah's turban | the wall | still | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 2 | climb | past | Mansing | turban | by the aid of Motishah's turban | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by aid=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | pull | past | Mansing not said here | Mansing's wife | after Mansing | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent wife=Result |
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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