Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 51
The king undid the girths and taking with him the saddle ran to a big tree close by and climbed into its branches.
Who acts: king, taking · What happens: undo, take, run, climb · To what, where: girths, saddle, branches
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, taking), 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 | 3 undid | nsubj |
| 3 | undid | undo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girths | det |
| 5 | girths | girth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 undid | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 ran | csubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taking | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 saddle | det |
| 11 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 undid | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 close | fixed |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 climbed | cc |
| 20 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 undid | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 branches | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 branches | nmod:poss |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 climbed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 undid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undo | past | the king | the girths | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the saddle | with king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | taking | to a big tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | ||||
| 4 | climb | past | the king not said here | saddle's branches | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into branch=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/51/