Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 32
Aho did so and as the words left his lips, a tall beautiful youth, riding a noble steed, rose from the river and behind him followed thousands of soldiers and horsemen, chariots and war elephants.
Who acts: Aho, words · What happens: do, leave, ride, rise, follow · To what, where: lips, noble steed, river, thousands
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, words), 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 | Aho | Aho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 left | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 so | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 youth | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 youth | amod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 youth | amod |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lips | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 riding | punct |
| 17 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 left | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 steed | det |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 steed | amod |
| 20 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 riding | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rose | punct |
| 22 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 river | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 river | det |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 followed | cc |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 followed | mark |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 followed | nsubj |
| 29 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rose | conj |
| 30 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 followed | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 soldiers | case |
| 32 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 thousands | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 horsemen | cc |
| 34 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 soldiers | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 chariots | punct |
| 36 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 soldiers | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 elephants | cc |
| 38 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 elephants | compound |
| 39 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 chariots | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Aho | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | the words | Aho's lips and a tall beautiful youth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | the words not said here | a noble steed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | the words not said here | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | follow | past | Aho | thousands of soldiers and horsemen and chariots and war elephants | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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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