Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 13
He left her and went to take a siesta in the shade of a high wall, some streets away.
Who acts: saint · What happens: leave, go, take, shade · To what, where: wife, siesta, shade, high wall
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 (saint), 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 | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 siesta | det |
| 9 | siesta | siesta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 shade | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shade | det |
| 12 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wall | amod |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shade | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 streets | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 streets | det |
| 19 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wall | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 streets | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | saint | wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | saint not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | saint not said here | a siesta | the shade of a high wall and some streets | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent siesta=Value in shade=Location | |||
| 4 | shade | a high wall and some streets | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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