Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 86
Leaving the queen to guard her husband the Musulman went down the steps of a well to wash his face and hands.
Who acts: Musulman · What happens: leave, guard, go down, wash, step · To what, where: queen, husband, steps, face, well
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 | Leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 went | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 guard | mark |
| 5 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leaving | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guard | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Musulman | det |
| 9 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 steps | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 steps | det |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steps | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wash | mark |
| 18 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wash | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hands | cc |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 face | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the queen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | |||||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | queen's husband | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | go down | past | the Musulman | the steps of a well | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient step=Extent | ||||
| 4 | wash | to-infinitive | the Musulman not said here | Musulman's face and hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 5 | step | a well | nom step «act 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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