Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 155
“I have stopped,” said Chota Amrani, “to listen to the words of Holy Writ.
Who acts: Chota · What happens: stop, say, listen, word · To what, where: Holy Writ · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chota), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | aux |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Chota | Chota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | Amrani | Amrani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chota | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listen | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 listen | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 listen | mark |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 words | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 words | det |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 listen | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Writ | case |
| 18 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 19 Writ | compound |
| 19 | Writ | Writ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 words | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | present · perfect | Chota | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Chota | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | to-infinitive | Chota not said here | to the words of Holy Writ | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word in a quote | Holy Writ | nom word «communication 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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