Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 46
Sita promised to stay within the two lines and Rama and Laxman went in pursuit of the golden deer.
Who acts: Sita, Rama · What happens: promise, stay, go, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, golden deer
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 (Sita, Rama), 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 | Sita | Sita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stay | mark |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 lines | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lines | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 lines | nummod |
| 8 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stay | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 10 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Laxman | cc |
| 12 | Laxman | Laxman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rama | conj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pursuit | case |
| 15 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 deer | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 deer | det |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deer | amod |
| 19 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pursuit | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Sita | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sita not said here | within the two lines | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Rama and Laxman | pursuit of the golden deer | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location | ||||
| 4 | pursue | the golden deer | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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