Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 93
Then arming himself with sword and shield, he went to the mouth of the well and challenged the Musulman to a second fight.
Who acts: blade · What happens: arm, go, challenge · To what, where: blade, mouth, Musulman
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 arming | advmod |
| 2 | arming | arm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 arming | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sword | case |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arming | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shield | cc |
| 7 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 arming | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouth | det |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouth | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 challenged | cc |
| 18 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Musulman | det |
| 20 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 challenged | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 fight | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fight | det |
| 23 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 fight | amod |
| 24 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 challenged | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arm | gerund | blade not said here | blade | then | with sword and shield | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with sword=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | blade | the mouth of the well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | challenge | past | blade not said here | the Musulman | to a second fight | tree rules |
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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