Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 33
The terrified minister fell at Udero Lal’s feet and begged him to send away the mighty army that followed in his footsteps.
Who acts: terrified minister, mighty army · What happens: fall, beg, send away, follow · To what, where: feet, minister, mighty army, footsteps
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 (terrified minister, mighty army), 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 | 3 minister | det |
| 2 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 6 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Udero | flat |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Udero | case |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begged | cc |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 begged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 send | mark |
| 14 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begged | xcomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADP | _ | 14 send | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 army | det |
| 17 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 army | amod |
| 18 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 send | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 followed | nsubj |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 army | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 footsteps | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 23 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 followed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the terrified minister | Udero's feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the terrified minister not said here | minister | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the terrified minister not said here | the mighty army | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | the mighty army | Aho's footsteps | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in footstep=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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