Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 234
The frightened pigeon dropped like a stone to the ground at the feet of a Madu maiden of 16, who was filling her jar at the well.
Who acts: Madu maiden · What happens: drop, fill · To what, where: frightened pigeon, feet, jar, 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 (Madu maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pigeon | det |
| 2 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pigeon | amod |
| 3 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pigeon | acl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feet | det |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dropped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 maiden | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 16 | Madu | Madu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 maiden | compound |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feet | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 16 | case |
| 19 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 maiden | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 filling | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 filling | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 filling | aux |
| 23 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 maiden | acl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 jar | nmod:poss |
| 25 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filling | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 well | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 well | det |
| 28 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pigeon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | participle | the frightened pigeon not said here | the feet of a Madu maiden of 16 | like a stone; to the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent to ground=Destination at foot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fill | past · progressive | a Madu maiden of 16 | maiden's jar | the well | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient |
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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