Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 188
The first night the city was spared, because an old woman working at a wheel kept awake all night, as the voice had commanded.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: spare, work, keep, command · To what, where: city, voice · 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 (old 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spared | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spared | aux:pass |
| 7 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 kept | mark |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | parataxis |
| 13 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 woman | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 wheel | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wheel | det |
| 16 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 working | obl |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spared | parataxis |
| 18 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kept | xcomp |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 commanded | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 commanded | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 voice | det |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 commanded | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 commanded | aux |
| 26 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 kept | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past · passive | the city | night | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | a old woman not said here | at a wheel | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wheel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle | night | a old woman parataxis; awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | command | past · perfect · passive | the voice | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: subject=Eventuality |
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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