Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 162
He dressed up as a girl and was taken to the house of the learned maiden by the woman in the shop.
Who acts: Chota, woman · What happens: dress up, take, learn · To what, where: shop
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, woman), 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 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dressed | compound:prt |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 taken | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dressed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 maiden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 15 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 maiden | amod |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 shop | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shop | det |
| 22 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | past | Chota | as a girl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the woman | the shop | to the house of the learned maiden result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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