Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 187
A few obeyed and shook from their feet the dust of the doomed city, but most of the people paid no heed.
Who acts: most · What happens: obey, shake, doom, pay · To what, where: dust, feet, heed
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 (most), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 obeyed | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obeyed | amod |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shook | cc |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shook | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dust | det |
| 10 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 13 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 city | amod |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dust | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 paid | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 paid | cc |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 paid | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 most | nmod |
| 21 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 heed | det |
| 23 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 paid | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | participle | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | shake | past | the dust of the doomed city | houses's feet | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dust=Theme from foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | doom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pay | past | most of the people | no heed | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
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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