Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 165
Voices all round him cried out, “Strike him!
Who acts: Voices, king · What happens: round, cry out, strike · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Voices, 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 | Voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 round | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 round | advmod |
| 3 | round | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 round | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cried | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Strike | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Strike | punct |
| 9 | Strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Strike | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 round | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | round | present | Voices | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | strike in a quote | infinitive | king not said here | king | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=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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