Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 92
In a rage he flung away the apple and abandoning his office, became an anchorite.
Who acts: regent · What happens: fling away, abandon, become · To what, where: apple, rage, office, anchorite
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 (regent), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 rage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rage | det |
| 3 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flung | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flung | nsubj |
| 5 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 flung | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flung | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 abandoning | cc |
| 10 | abandoning | abandon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 apple | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 office | nmod:poss |
| 12 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 abandoning | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flung | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 anchorite | det |
| 16 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling away | past | regent | the apple | a rage | away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent apple=Theme in rage=Destination | ||
| 2 | abandon | gerund | regent not said here | regent's office | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme office=Source | ||||
| 3 | become | past | regent not said here | a anchorite | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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