Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 226
One evening he and his good for nothing companions went out a-hawking.
Who acts: nothing companions · What happens: go out · To what, where: hawking
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 (nothing companions), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 good | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 good | nmod:poss |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 went | mark |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 companions | compound |
| 9 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hawking | det |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 a | punct |
| 14 | hawking | hawking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | nothing companions | a hawking | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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