Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 193
The wand then flew from the king’s hand and began mercilessly to belabour the old sage, until in his pain and fear he threw away the pomegranate and begged for mercy.
Who acts: wand, sage · What happens: fly, begin, belabour, throw away, beg, pain · To what, where: hand, old sage, pomegranate
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 (wand, sage), 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 wand | det |
| 2 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 12 | mercilessly | mercilessly | ADV | _ | 11 began | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 belabour | mark |
| 14 | belabour | belabour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sage | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sage | amod |
| 17 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belabour | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pain | punct |
| 19 | until | until | ADP | _ | 22 pain | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pain | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pain | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fear | cc |
| 24 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pain | conj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 threw | nsubj |
| 26 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pain | parataxis |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 threw | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 pomegranate | det |
| 29 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 threw | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 begged | cc |
| 31 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 threw | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 mercy | case |
| 33 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 begged | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the wand | the king's hand | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hand=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the wand not said here | sage's pain and fear parataxis; mercilessly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | belabour | to-infinitive | the wand not said here | the old sage | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | throw away | past | sage | the pomegranate | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Theme | |||
| 5 | beg speech: request | participle | sage not said here | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic | ||||
| 6 | pain | sage | nom pain «state 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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