Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 82
The Musulman did not heed her, but mixing opium with water he poured it down Mansing’s throat.
Who acts: Musulman · What happens: not heed, mix, pour down · To what, where: queen, opium
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), 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 | 2 Musulman | det |
| 2 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heed | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heed | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 heed | advmod |
| 5 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 poured | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 poured | cc |
| 9 | mixing | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 poured | csubj |
| 10 | opium | opium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mixing | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mixing | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 poured | nsubj |
| 14 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heed | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 poured | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 poured | compound:prt |
| 17 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 throat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Mansing | case |
| 19 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 poured | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not heed | past · do-support | the Musulman | queen | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mix | gerund | opium | with water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent opium=Patient with water=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | pour down | past | Musulman | opium | Mansing's throat obj | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme throat=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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