Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 78
The Musulman noble untied the queen but he refused to kill Mansing, although she begged him to.
Who acts: Musulman noble, Mansing, queen · What happens: untie, refuse, not kill, beg · To what, where: queen, Mansing
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 (Musulman noble, Mansing, queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 noble | det |
| 2 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 noble | compound |
| 3 | noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 untied | nsubj |
| 4 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 untied | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 refused | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 refused | nsubj |
| 9 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 untied | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kill | mark |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 refused | xcomp |
| 12 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 begged | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 16 begged | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 begged | nsubj |
| 16 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 untied | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 begged | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 begged | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untie | past | the Musulman noble | the queen | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | Mansing | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not kill | to-infinitive | Mansing not said here | Mansing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mansing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | queen | Mansing | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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