Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 66
Addicted as he was to the drug, he could do without food, but he could not do without his opium.
Who acts: Mansing · What happens: addict, be, do, not do
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 | Addicted | addict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 do | advcl |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 drug | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drug | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drug | cop |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 drug | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 drug | det |
| 7 | drug | drug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Addicted | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Addicted | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 food | case |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 do | parataxis |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 opium | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 opium | nmod:poss |
| 22 | opium | opium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | addict | participle | Mansing not said here | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Mansing | to the drug | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | could | Mansing | without food | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not do | could | Mansing | without Mansing's opium | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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