Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 235
The girl picked up the pigeon and stroking its feathers put it in her bosom.
Who acts: girl, stroking · What happens: pick up, stroke, put, bosom · To what, where: pigeon, feathers, well, bosom
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 (girl, stroking), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pigeon | det |
| 6 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 8 | stroking | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 put | csubj |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stroking | obj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bosom | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the girl | the pigeon | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stroke | gerund | well's feathers | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | put | past | stroking | well | girl's bosom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Destination | |||
| 4 | bosom | girl | nom bosom «state transitive»: 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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