Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 47
Instantly King Ravana who had been hovering in the sky inside his aerial car, descended to earth and assuming the form of a mendicant approached the hermitage of Sita and asked her for alms.
Who acts: King · What happens: hover, descend, assume, approach, ask, form · To what, where: sky, aerial car, earth, form, hermitage, mendicant
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 (King), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 7 hovering | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hovering | nsubj |
| 3 | Ravana | Ravana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hovering | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hovering | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 hovering | aux |
| 7 | hovering | hover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 approached | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hovering | obl |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 14 car | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 car | nmod:poss |
| 13 | aerial | aerial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 car | amod |
| 14 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hovering | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 descended | punct |
| 16 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 car | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 descended | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 assuming | cc |
| 20 | assuming | assume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hovering | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 form | det |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 assuming | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mendicant | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mendicant | det |
| 25 | mendicant | mendicant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 form | nmod |
| 26 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hermitage | det |
| 28 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 approached | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Sita | case |
| 30 | Sita | Sita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 hermitage | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 asked | cc |
| 32 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 approached | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 asked | iobj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 alms | case |
| 35 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 asked | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hover | past · perfect · progressive | King | the sky | inside King's aerial car; who nsubj; instantly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location | |||
| 2 | descend | participle | King's aerial car not said here | earth | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Location | ||||
| 3 | assume | gerund | King not said here | the form of a mendicant | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 4 | approach | past | the hermitage of Sita | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermitage=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | mendicant | for alms | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | form | a mendicant | nom form «communication 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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