Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 62
Then regaining courage, he slashed so fiercely at the elephant’s trunk with his sword that it let him and the horse go.
Who acts: king, courage, horse · What happens: regain, slash, let, go · To what, where: courage, king
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, courage, horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 regaining | advmod |
| 2 | regaining | regain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 slashed | advcl |
| 3 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 regaining | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 regaining | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 slashed | nsubj |
| 6 | slashed | slash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 fiercely | advmod |
| 8 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 6 slashed | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 trunk | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elephant | det |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 elephant | case |
| 13 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slashed | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 sword | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sword | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trunk | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 let | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slashed | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | nsubj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regain | gerund | king not said here | courage | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | |||
| 2 | slash | past | king | at the elephant's trunk with king's sword; fiercely property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at trunk=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | past | courage | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | the horse | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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