Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 29
As Makhdum Nuh was washing in the river his slate on which he had written some lines of the Koran, he saw a boat approach.
Who acts: Makhdum Nuh, slate · What happens: wash, write, see · To what, where: river, boat approach
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 (Makhdum Nuh, slate), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 washing | mark |
| 2 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Nuh | compound |
| 3 | Nuh | Nuh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 washing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 washing | aux |
| 5 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 saw | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 washing | obl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 slate | nmod:poss |
| 10 | slate | slate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 which | nsubj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 written | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 written | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 written | aux |
| 15 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 river | acl:relcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 lines | det |
| 17 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 written | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Koran | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Koran | det |
| 20 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lines | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 washing | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 approach | det |
| 25 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 approach | compound |
| 26 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past · progressive | Makhdum Nuh | the river | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write | past · perfect · passive | the river | slate nsubj; some lines of the Koran obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient line=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | past | slate | a boat approach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer approach=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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