Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 191
Suddenly, while all slept the entire city was swallowed up.
What happens: sleep, swallow up · To what, where: entire city
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: 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 slept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 slept | mark |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 slept | advmod |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 7 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swallowed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 10 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slept | ccomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | all, suddenly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swallow up | past · passive | the entire city | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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