Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 285
But the chief minister and a few others remained seated.
Who acts: chief minister · What happens: remain, seat
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 (chief minister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 remained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 minister | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minister | amod |
| 4 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 others | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 others | amod |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 minister | conj |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 remained | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the chief minister and a few others | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seat | participle | the chief minister and a few others not said here | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
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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