Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 142
When the executioners went to Shah Latif’s house to seize him, they found him already dead and dismembered.
Who acts: executioners · What happens: go, seize, find, dismember · To what, where: house, ABDUL
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 (executioners), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 executioners | det |
| 3 | executioners | executioner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Shah | flat |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Shah | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seize | mark |
| 11 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seize | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | already | already | ADV | _ | 18 dead | advmod |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 found | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dismembered | cc |
| 20 | dismembered | dismember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the executioners | Shah's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | seize | to-infinitive | the executioners not said here | ABDUL | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | executioners = executioner | ABDUL | dead property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 4 | dismember | past | executioners = executioner not said here | tree rules |
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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