Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 89
The blade missed his head and grazing his side cut through the rope which bound him.
Who acts: blade, grazing, rope · What happens: miss, graze, cut, bind · To what, where: head, side, blade
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 (blade, grazing, rope), 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 blade | det |
| 2 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cut | cc |
| 7 | grazing | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cut | csubj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 side | nmod:poss |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grazing | obj |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 missed | conj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 rope | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rope | det |
| 13 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 bound | nsubj |
| 15 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rope | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bound | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | the blade | blade's head | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | graze | gerund | blade's side | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cut | past | grazing | through the rope | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through rope=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bind | past | the rope | blade | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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