Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 74
He summoned to him his nobles and called for a volunteer to chase Mansing and bring him back alive.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: summon, call, chase, bring back · To what, where: nobles, Mansing, Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Emperor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 summoned | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 summoned | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 summoned | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 volunteer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 volunteer | det |
| 11 | volunteer | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 chase | mark |
| 13 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 called | advcl |
| 14 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 chase | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bring | cc |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 chase | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bring | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | Emperor | Emperor's nobles | Mansing | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noble=Recipient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | Emperor not said here | for a volunteer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for volunteer=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | chase | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | Mansing | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mansing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring back | infinitive | Emperor not said here | Emperor | alive property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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