Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 102
He had hardly finished his prayer, when the stone rolled aside and Nigar with Haidar Ali’s help was able to climb out of the well.
Who acts: news, stone, Nigar, Haidar · What happens: finish, roll, be, climb, pray, help · To what, where: prayer, well
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, stone, Nigar, Haidar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 finished | advmod |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rolled | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 rolled | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | nsubj |
| 11 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | parataxis |
| 12 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 11 rolled | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 able | cc |
| 14 | Nigar | Nigar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 able | nsubj |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 21 able | mark |
| 16 | Haidar | Haidar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Haidar | flat |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Haidar | case |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 able | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rolled | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 climb | mark |
| 23 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 well | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 well | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 well | det |
| 27 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 climb | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | news | news's prayer | hardly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector prayer=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | roll | past | the stone | aside property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Nigar | Haidar's help nsubj; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | climb | to-infinitive | Nigar not said here | the well | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out well=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | pray | news | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | help | Haidar | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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