Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 109
He threw himself at his master’s feet and confessing everything, prayed for mercy.
Who acts: king · What happens: throw, confess, pray · To what, where: king, feet, everything
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 master | case |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 confessing | cc |
| 10 | confessing | confess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 threw | conj |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 confessing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prayed | punct |
| 13 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 everything | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 mercy | case |
| 15 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prayed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | king | king | king's master's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | confess | gerund | king not said here | everything | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pray | participle | for mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme |
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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