Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 222
Next morning when the old man awoke, he passed his hand over his face and found the horrible thing that had been done to him.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: awake, pass, find, do · To what, where: hand, face, horrible thing, man
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 man, man), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 awoke | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 done | obj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 thing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the old man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | man | man's hand | man's face | morning | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over face=Destination | ||
| 3 | find | past | man not said here | the horrible thing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect · passive | the horrible thing | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=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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