Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 8
At first Mansing paid no heed to his queen’s chatter; but at last he got cross and told her not to mention in his presence the name of the Mleccha emperor.
Who acts: Mansing, queen · What happens: pay, get, tell, not mention, chatter, name · To what, where: heed, last, queen, name, presence, Mleccha 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 paid | obl |
| 3 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 heed | det |
| 6 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 chatter | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 queen | nmod:poss |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chatter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 queen | case |
| 11 | chatter | chatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | conj |
| 18 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 got | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 mention | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 mention | mark |
| 24 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 told | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 presence | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 presence | nmod:poss |
| 27 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mention | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 name | det |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mention | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 emperor | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 emperor | det |
| 32 | Mleccha | Mleccha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 emperor | compound |
| 33 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 name | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Mansing | no heed | to Mansing's queen's chatter | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 2 | get | past | Mansing | last | cross property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Mansing not said here | queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not mention speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mansing not said here | the name of the Mleccha emperor | Mansing's presence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | |||
| 5 | chatter | Mansing's queen | nom chatter «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | name | the Mleccha emperor | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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