Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 210
But the fickle mob at once turned round.
What happens: turn round · To what, where: fickle mob
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mob | det |
| 3 | fickle | fickle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mob | amod |
| 4 | mob | mob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 turned | mark |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 turned | advmod |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | participle · passive | the fickle mob | once, round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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