Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 11
On the way they stopped at Alor and the beauty of the merchant’s daughter was noised abroad and reached the ears of King Dalurai, who instantly demanded that she should be sent to his palace.
Who acts: saint, ears · What happens: stop, noise, reach, demand, send · To what, where: way, beauty, ears, Dalurai, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saint, ears), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Alor | case |
| 7 | Alor | Alor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 noised | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beauty | det |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noised | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 merchant | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beauty | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noised | aux:pass |
| 17 | noised | noise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stopped | conj |
| 18 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 17 noised | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reached | cc |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noised | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ears | det |
| 22 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Dalurai | case |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Dalurai | compound |
| 25 | Dalurai | Dalurai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ears | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 demanded | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 demanded | nsubj |
| 28 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 29 demanded | advmod |
| 29 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ears | acl:relcl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 sent | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sent | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 sent | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sent | aux:pass |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 demanded | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 palace | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 palace | nmod:poss |
| 37 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | saint | the way | at Alor | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at alor=Location | |||
| 2 | noise | past · passive | the beauty of the merchant's daughter | abroad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | the ears of King Dalurai | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | the ears of King Dalurai | instantly property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | send | should · passive | Dalurai | merchant's palace | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination |
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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