Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 99
There everyone threw bricks and stones at her or hit her head with their shoes.
Who acts: everyone · What happens: throw, hit · To what, where: bricks, 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 (everyone), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | expl |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stones | cc |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bricks | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 hit | cc |
| 10 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hit | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 shoes | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hit | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | everyone | bricks and stones | there | at queen | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent brick=Theme at she=Destination | ||
| 2 | hit | past | everyone not said here | queen's head | with stones's shoes | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with shoe=Instrument |
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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