Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 27
At the age of seven he knew the mighty book by heart.
Who acts: duck · What happens: know · To what, where: mighty book, age
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 (duck), 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 | _ | 3 age | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 age | det |
| 3 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 seven | case |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 age | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 book | amod |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 book | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | duck | the mighty book | at the age of seven | by heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus |
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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