Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 233
At last the hawk’s strong wings bore it above the pigeon and it made its swoop.
Who acts: last strong wings, air · What happens: bear, make, swoop · To what, where: air, pigeon, swoop
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 (last strong wings, air), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wings | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hawk | det |
| 4 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 hawk | case |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wings | amod |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bore | nsubj |
| 8 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bore | obj |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 pigeon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pigeon | det |
| 12 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bore | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bore | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 swoop | nmod:poss |
| 17 | swoop | swoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | the hawk's last strong wings | air | the pigeon | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | air | air's swoop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material swoop=Product | ||||
| 3 | swoop | air | nom swoop «communication intransitive»: poss=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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