Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 100
The Memon was so startled that he went away to take counsel of his wife.
Who acts: Udero · What happens: startle, go away, take · To what, where: Memon, counsel
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Udero), 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 | 2 Memon | det |
| 2 | Memon | Memon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 startled | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 startled | advmod |
| 5 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 startled | ccomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 12 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 counsel | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past · passive | the Memon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go away | past | Udero | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | Udero not said here | counsel of Udero's wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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