Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 163
The maiden’s name was Fatima and she readily undertook the instruction of the foreign girl, who had come from so far off to see Mecca.
Who acts: name, Fatima, foreign girl, maiden · What happens: be, undertake, come, see, name, instruct · To what, where: Fatima, instruction, Mecca, foreign girl
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 (name, Fatima, foreign girl, maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 maiden | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fatima | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Fatima | cop |
| 6 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 undertook | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 undertook | nsubj |
| 9 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 10 undertook | advmod |
| 10 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Fatima | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 instruction | det |
| 12 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 undertook | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 instruction | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 girl | acl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 off | case |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 off | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 off | advmod |
| 24 | off | off | ADV | _ | 20 come | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 off | advcl |
| 27 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fatima | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the maiden's name | Fatima | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | undertake | past | Fatima | the instruction of the foreign girl | readily property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | the foreign girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from off=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the foreign girl not said here | Mecca | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mecca=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | name | the maiden | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | instruct | the foreign girl | nom instruction «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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