Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 136
Hearing of the poor young king’s execution, she went at night and sprinkled three drops of Amrita over his body.
Who acts: Hearing, execution, poor young king · What happens: go, sprinkle, hear, execute · To what, where: three drops, body
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 (Hearing, execution, poor young 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 | Hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 execution | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 execution | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearing | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sprinkled | cc |
| 15 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 drops | nummod |
| 17 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sprinkled | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Amrita | case |
| 19 | Amrita | Amrita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 drops | nmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 body | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 body | nmod:poss |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprinkled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hearing of the poor young king's execution | night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sprinkle | past | Hearing of the poor young king's execution not said here | three drops of Amrita | king's body | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme over body=Destination | |||
| 3 | hear | the poor young king's execution | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | execute | the poor young king | nom execution «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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