Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 91
Rushing at the queen, he twisted the sword from her hand and tied her to the tree.
Who acts: blade · What happens: rush, twist, tie · To what, where: sword, hand, queen
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), 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 | Rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 twisted | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 queen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rushing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rushing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 twisted | nsubj |
| 7 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twisted | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twisted | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tied | cc |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 twisted | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tied | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | blade not said here | at the queen | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at queen=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | twist | past | blade | the sword | queen's hand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from hand=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | tie | past | blade not said here | queen | to the tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to tree=Co-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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