Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 40
After he had escorted with all reverence the beautiful youth to one of his palaces, he ordered his soldiers to surround it.
Who acts: Marak, soldiers · What happens: escort, order, surround · To what, where: beautiful youth, soldiers, reverence
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 (Marak, soldiers), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 escorted | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 escorted | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escorted | aux |
| 4 | escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 ordered | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 reverence | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 reverence | det |
| 7 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escorted | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 youth | amod |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escorted | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 youth | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palaces | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 palaces | nmod:poss |
| 15 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 escorted | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ordered | nsubj |
| 18 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ordered | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 surround | mark |
| 22 | surround | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ordered | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 surround | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escort | past · perfect | Marak | the beautiful youth | with all reverence; to one of Marak's palaces | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme to one=Destination | |||
| 2 | order | past | Marak | Marak's soldiers | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | surround not said to happen | to-infinitive | Marak's soldiers not said here | reverence | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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