Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 136
At the same time there were many skeletons visible in corners and doorways—the skeletons of men and women overwhelmed, no doubt, as they sought to escape.
Who acts: skeletons · What happens: be, overwhelm, seek, escape · To what, where: corners
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 (skeletons), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 were | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 visible | cop |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skeletons | amod |
| 8 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 9 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 corners | case |
| 11 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 visible | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 doorways | cc |
| 13 | doorways | doorway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 corners | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 skeletons | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skeletons | det |
| 16 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 skeletons | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 women | cc |
| 20 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | conj |
| 21 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 corners | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 doubt | punct |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 doubt | det |
| 24 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visible | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sought | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 sought | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sought | nsubj |
| 28 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 visible | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 escape | mark |
| 30 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sought | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 visible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | corners and doorways | no doubt conj; visible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overwhelm | past | the skeletons of men and women | corners and doorways not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus corner=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | skeletons = skeleton | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | skeletons = skeleton not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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