Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 28
At the age of fourteen he was vouchsafed a vision of no less a personage than Mahomed himself.
What happens: vouchsafe · To what, where: duck, 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: 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 | 8 vouchsafed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fourteen | case |
| 5 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 age | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 vouchsafed | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vouchsafed | aux:pass |
| 8 | vouchsafed | vouchsafe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 vision | det |
| 10 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vouchsafed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 personage | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 personage | det |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 personage | amod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 personage | det |
| 15 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vision | nmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 Mahomed | case |
| 17 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 personage | nmod |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 Mahomed | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 vouchsafed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vouchsafe | past · passive | duck | at the age of fourteen | a vision of no less personage than Mahomed duck obj | tree rules |
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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