Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 54
At once he reassumed his proper guise and seizing her by the hair threw her into his chariot and carried her off to his island kingdom of Lanka.
Who acts: Sita, seizing · What happens: reassum, seize, throw, carry off · To what, where: proper guise, sage, chariot, island kingdom
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, seizing), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 reassumed | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reassumed | nsubj |
| 4 | reassumed | reassum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guise | amod |
| 7 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reassumed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 9 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 threw | csubj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seizing | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hair | det |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seizing | obl |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reassumed | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 chariot | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reassumed | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carried | obj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 carried | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 kingdom | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kingdom | compound |
| 26 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Lanka | case |
| 28 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 kingdom | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reassumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reassum | past | Sita | Sita's proper guise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | gerund | sage | by the hair | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | seizing | sage | into Sita's chariot result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into chariot=Result | |||
| 4 | carry off | past | Sita not said here | sage | Sita's island kingdom of Lanka | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to kingdom=Destination |
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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