Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 43
The unhappy anchorite was seized, dragged before the governor and condemned to instant execution.
What happens: seize, drag, condemn · To what, where: unhappy anchorite, governor
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 anchorite | det |
| 2 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 anchorite | amod |
| 3 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | aux:pass |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragged | punct |
| 7 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seized | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 governor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 governor | det |
| 10 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragged | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 condemned | cc |
| 12 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seized | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 execution | case |
| 14 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 execution | amod |
| 15 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 condemned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | the unhappy anchorite | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drag | participle | the governor | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before governor=Location | |||||
| 3 | condemn | participle | to instant execution | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: 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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