Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 87
The queen seeing her chance, picked up Mansing’s sword as it lay on the ground and struck a blow at his head.
Who acts: queen, chance · What happens: see, pick up, lie, strike, chance · To what, where: chance, queen, ground, blow, head
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 (queen, chance), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 queen | acl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 picked | punct |
| 7 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 picked | compound:prt |
| 9 | Mansing | Mansing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Mansing | case |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picked | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 lay | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 picked | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 struck | cc |
| 19 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lay | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 blow | det |
| 21 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the queen not said here | queen's chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle · passive | the queen | Mansing's sword obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | chance | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | chance not said here | a blow | Mansing's head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | |||
| 5 | chance | queen | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/16/87/