Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 282
Receiving no answer, he caught up a heavy pickaxe and with a single blow broke open the lock.
Who acts: Dalu · What happens: receive, catch up, break, open · To what, where: answer, heavy pickaxe, lock
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 (Dalu), 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 | Receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 caught | advcl |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 answer | det |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Receiving | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Receiving | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 caught | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pickaxe | det |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pickaxe | amod |
| 10 | pickaxe | pickaxe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broke | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blow | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blow | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blow | amod |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | obl |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | conj |
| 17 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 broke | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lock | det |
| 19 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 open | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | gerund | Dalu not said here | no answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch up | past | Dalu | a heavy pickaxe | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pickaxe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | past | Dalu not said here | with a single blow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | Dalu not said here | the lock | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme |
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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