Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 112
The king took the pavanpavdi and tied it on to his horse’s back and rode on until he crossed the borders of the Princess Phulpancha’s country.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, tie on, ride on, cross · To what, where: pavanpavdi, borders
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pavanpavdi | det |
| 5 | pavanpavdi | pavanpavdi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tied | cc |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tied | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tied | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rode | compound:prt |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 crossed | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 crossed | nsubj |
| 20 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rode | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 borders | det |
| 22 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crossed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Phulpancha | det |
| 25 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Phulpancha | compound |
| 26 | Phulpancha | Phulpancha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 country | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Phulpancha | case |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 borders | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | the pavanpavdi | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pavanpavdi=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie on | past | the king not said here | pavanpavdi | to king's horse's back | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to back=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | ride on | past | the king not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cross | past | king | the borders of the Princess Phulpancha's country | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=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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