Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 220
Before the meal was over the poor old pandit was fast asleep.
Who acts: poor old pandit · What happens: be · To what, where: poor old pandit
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 (poor old pandit), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 meal | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meal | det |
| 3 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pandit | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pandit | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 pandit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pandit | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pandit | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pandit | amod |
| 9 | pandit | pandit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asleep | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asleep | cop |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 asleep | advmod |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor old pandit | before the meal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the poor old pandit | asleep, fast property | tree rules |
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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