Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 31
The governor was frightened out of his wits, still he ordered Aho to go to the river bank and call on Udero Lal to rise from the river.
Who acts: Aho · What happens: frighten, order, go, call, rise · To what, where: governor, wits, Aho, river bank, Udero, river · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Aho), 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 governor | det |
| 2 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 wits | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wits | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wits | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frightened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 ordered | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 13 | Aho | Aho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ordered | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bank | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bank | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bank | compound |
| 19 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 call | cc |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Udero | case |
| 23 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 call | obl |
| 24 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Udero | flat |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rise | mark |
| 26 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 call | advcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 river | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rise | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the governor | Aho's wits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Aho | Aho | still | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent aho=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Aho not said here | the river bank | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | call | infinitive | Aho not said here | Udero | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | rise | to-infinitive | Aho not said here | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from river=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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