Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 204
They lived by selling milk and ghi to the rich burghers of Brahmanabad.
Who acts: tribes · What happens: live, sell · To what, where: milk, rich burghers
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 (tribes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 selling | mark |
| 4 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lived | advcl |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 selling | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ghi | cc |
| 7 | ghi | ghi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 milk | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 burghers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 burghers | det |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 burghers | amod |
| 11 | burghers | burgher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 selling | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Brahmanabad | case |
| 13 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 burghers | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | tribes = tribe | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sell | gerund | tribes = tribe not said here | milk and ghi | the rich burghers of Brahmanabad | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to burgher=Recipient |
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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