Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 34
The tale runs that his father King Dasharatha, urged thereto by his queen Kaikeyi, drove his eldest son Rama into exile, so that her son Bharata might succeed to the throne.
Who acts: tale, father, son · What happens: run, urge, drive, succeed · To what, where: eldest son, exile
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale, father, son), 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 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 urged | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 urged | nsubj |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 father | appos |
| 8 | Dasharatha | Dasharatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 urged | punct |
| 10 | urged | urge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 runs | advcl |
| 11 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 10 urged | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 queen | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 queen | nmod:poss |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 urged | obl |
| 15 | Kaikeyi | Kaikeyi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 queen | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drove | punct |
| 17 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 runs | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 son | amod |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drove | obj |
| 21 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 son | appos |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 exile | case |
| 23 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drove | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 succeed | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 succeed | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 succeed | nsubj |
| 29 | Bharata | Bharata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 son | appos |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 succeed | aux |
| 31 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 runs | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 throne | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 throne | det |
| 34 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 succeed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the tale | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | urge | participle | Nasik's father | by Nasik's queen; thereto property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | the tale not said here | Nasik's eldest son | exile | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent son=Theme into exile=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | succeed | might | Rama's son | to the throne | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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