Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 101
Then he dismounted and throwing himself at full length on the ground, he prayed Allah to remove it.
Who acts: news · What happens: dismount, throw, pray, remove · To what, where: news, full length, Allah, ground
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dismounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 throwing | cc |
| 5 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 throwing | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 length | amod |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throwing | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 length | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prayed | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prayed | nsubj |
| 15 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 16 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 prayed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 remove | mark |
| 18 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prayed | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remove | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | news | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | news not said here | news | full length on the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at length=Destination | |||
| 3 | pray | past | news | Allah | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remove | to-infinitive | news not said here | ground | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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