Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 42
He took it, bowed his head to her feet, mounted his horse and spurring it along the northern road was soon out of sight.
Who acts: Amrita, spurring · What happens: take, bow, mount, spur, be · To what, where: bottle, head, feet, horse, sight
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 (Amrita, spurring), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bowed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mounted | punct |
| 12 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sight | cc |
| 16 | spurring | spur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 sight | csubj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spurring | obj |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 20 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 road | amod |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spurring | obl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sight | cop |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 sight | advmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Amrita | bottle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bow | past | Amrita not said here | Amrita's head | queen's feet | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to foot=Recipient | |||
| 3 | mount | past | Amrita's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||||
| 4 | spur | gerund | bottle | along the northern road | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | spurring | sight | soon property | tree rules |
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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