Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 18
Next morning the Hindu woman saw the saint and going up to him, reproached him for not keeping his tryst.
Who acts: Hindu woman · What happens: see, go up, reproach, not keep · To what, where: saint, tryst
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 (Hindu 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 saint | det |
| 8 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 going | cc |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saint | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 going | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reproached | punct |
| 15 | reproached | reproach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reproached | obj |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 keeping | mark |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 keeping | advmod |
| 19 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 reproached | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tryst | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tryst | tryst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keeping | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Hindu woman | the saint | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saint=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go up | gerund | the Hindu woman not said here | saint | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | reproach | past | the Hindu woman not said here | saint | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not keep | gerund | the Hindu woman not said here | saint's tryst | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tryst=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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