Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 273
The crowd at once caught up the cry and were soon shouting “Victory to Dalu Rai Maharaj” through every lane and byway in the city.
Who acts: crowd · What happens: catch up, shout · To what, where: cry, Victory, Dalu, lane, crowd
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 (crowd), 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 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 caught | mark |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 caught | advmod |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 crowd | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 caught | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cry | det |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shouting | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shouting | aux |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 shouting | advmod |
| 12 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 caught | conj |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Victory | punct |
| 14 | Victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shouting | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Dalu | case |
| 16 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Victory | nmod |
| 17 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dalu | flat |
| 18 | Maharaj | Maharaj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dalu | flat |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Victory | punct |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 lane | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 lane | det |
| 22 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shouting | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 byway | cc |
| 24 | byway | byway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lane | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 byway | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crowd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | participle | the crowd not said here | the cry | once property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past · progressive | the crowd not said here | Victory | Dalu | every lane and byway in the city | soon property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent victory=Topic to dalu=Recipient |
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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