Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 60
Carrying them to the mountain, it tried to crush them to death against one of its steep sides.
Who acts: mountain · What happens: carry, try, crush · To what, where: fairies, mountain
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 (mountain), 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 | Carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tried | advcl |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Carrying | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 mountain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountain | det |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carrying | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carrying | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 crush | mark |
| 10 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 crush | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crush | obl |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 crush | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sides | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sides | nmod:poss |
| 18 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sides | amod |
| 19 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | mountain not said here | fairies = fairy | the mountain | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to mountain=Destination | |||
| 2 | try | past | mountain | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | crush not said to happen | to-infinitive | mountain not said here | fairies = fairy | to death result; against one of mountain's steep sides | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to death=Result |
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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