Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 67
It would have been useless for him to ride further, for he would have fallen off the saddle.
Who acts: opium, Mansing · What happens: be, ride, fall off · To what, where: saddle
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 (opium, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 useless | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 useless | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 useless | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 useless | cop |
| 5 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 ride | mark |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ride | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ride | mark |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 useless | advcl |
| 10 | further | further | ADV | _ | 9 ride | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fallen | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 fallen | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fallen | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fallen | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fallen | aux |
| 16 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 ride | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 saddle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 saddle | det |
| 19 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fallen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 useless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | opium | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | Mansing | further property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall off | would · perfect | Mansing | the saddle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient saddle=Extent |
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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