Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 126
A road sufficiently good for a Ford Car leads thither and a run there on a cold weather morning is a bracing and exhilarating experience.
Who acts: road, run · What happens: lead, be · To what, where: bracing
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 (road, run), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leads | nsubj |
| 3 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 road | amod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Car | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Car | det |
| 7 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Car | compound |
| 8 | Car | Car | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 good | obl |
| 9 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 9 leads | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bracing | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 run | det |
| 13 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bracing | nsubj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 run | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 morning | det |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 morning | amod |
| 18 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 morning | compound |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bracing | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bracing | det |
| 22 | bracing | bracing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leads | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 experience | cc |
| 24 | exhilarating | exhilarating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 experience | amod |
| 25 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bracing | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | a road | thither property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a run on a cold weather morning | a bracing and exhilarating experience | exhilarating experience conj | 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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