Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 13
So alarmed were the Hindus that, so the story runs, all their cooking pots fell from their shelves; and exclaiming that a camel had entered the king’s head [2], they went in a body to his minister Aho.
Who acts: story, cooking pots, pots · What happens: alarm, be, run, fall, exclaim, enter · To what, where: Hindus, shelves, camel, body
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 (story, cooking pots, pots), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 alarmed | advmod |
| 2 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 runs | advcl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Hindus | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hindus | det |
| 5 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 alarmed | obl:agent |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Hindus | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 runs | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 runs | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 runs | nsubj |
| 11 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 pots | det:predet |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pots | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pots | compound |
| 16 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 runs | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 shelves | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shelves | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shelves | shelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 exclaiming | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 exclaiming | cc |
| 23 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 runs | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 entered | mark |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 camel | det |
| 26 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 entered | aux |
| 28 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 exclaiming | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 head | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 king | case |
| 32 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 entered | obj |
| 33 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 34 2 | punct |
| 34 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 entered | flat |
| 35 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 34 2 | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 went | nsubj |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 exclaiming | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 body | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 body | det |
| 41 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 minister | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 minister | nmod:poss |
| 44 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 45 | Aho | Aho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 minister | appos |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | participle | the story not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Hindus | that obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | present | the story | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | Ratno's cooking pots | pots's shelves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shelf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | the story not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | enter | past · perfect · passive | a camel | the king's head obj; 2 flat | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | past | pots = pot | a body | to story's minister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to minister=Initial_Location |
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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