Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 15
He had with him a comely marriageable daughter, who at once fell in love with the sleeping saint.
Who acts: saint, comely marriageable daughter · What happens: have, fall · To what, where: comely marriageable daughter, love
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, comely marriageable daughter), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 6 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 daughter | amod |
| 7 | marriageable | marriageable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 daughter | amod |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 fell | obl |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 daughter | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 love | case |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 saint | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 saint | det |
| 18 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saint | compound |
| 19 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | saint | a comely marriageable daughter | with Lower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | fall | past | a comely marriageable daughter | love | with the sleeping saint | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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