Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 230
The king did not pass that way for a long time; but one day his horse ran away with him and took him to the eastern gate.
Who acts: king, one day · What happens: not pass, run away, take · To what, where: way, king, eastern gate
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, one day), 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 | 5 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pass | advmod |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | obj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | parataxis |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ran | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 gate | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gate | det |
| 27 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gate | amod |
| 28 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pass | past · do-support | the king | that way | time | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run away | past | one day king's horse | with king; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material | ||||
| 3 | take | past | one day king's horse not said here | king | the eastern gate | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gate=Destination |
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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