Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 84
Once upon a time he resolved to disguise himself and see with his own eyes how his viceroys governed his provinces.
Who acts: court, viceroys · What happens: resolve, disguise, see, govern · To what, where: court, provinces
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: who acts (court, viceroys), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 resolved | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 resolved | nsubj |
| 6 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 disguise | mark |
| 8 | disguise | disguise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 resolved | xcomp |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 disguise | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 disguise | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obl |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 governed | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 viceroys | nmod:poss |
| 18 | viceroys | viceroy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 governed | nsubj |
| 19 | governed | govern | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 provinces | nmod:poss |
| 21 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 governed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | court | time | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disguise | to-infinitive | court not said here | court | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | court not said here | with court's own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | govern | past | court's viceroys | court's provinces | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent province=Theme |
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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