Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 229
Vexed at their ill luck, they loosed their hawks at some tame pigeons that belonged to the villagers and happened to be circling near the well.
Who acts: hawks, tame pigeons · What happens: vex, loose, belong, happen, circle · To what, where: ill luck, hawks, tame pigeons, well
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 (hawks, tame pigeons), 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 | Vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 luck | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 luck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 luck | amod |
| 5 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vexed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loosed | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loosed | nsubj |
| 8 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Vexed | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hawks | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loosed | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 pigeons | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 pigeons | det |
| 13 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pigeons | amod |
| 14 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loosed | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 belonged | nsubj |
| 16 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pigeons | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 villagers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 villagers | det |
| 19 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 belonged | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 happened | cc |
| 21 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 belonged | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 circling | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 circling | aux |
| 24 | circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 happened | advcl |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 well | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 well | det |
| 27 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 circling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | participle | hawks's ill luck | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | loose | past | hawks = hawk | hawks's hawks | some tame pigeons | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hawk=Patient | |||
| 3 | belong | past | some tame pigeons | to the villagers | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | some tame pigeons not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | circle | to-infinitive · progressive | some tame pigeons not said here | the well | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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