Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 3
Torio was not Makhdum Niamat’s usual place of residence, but La Ikhtyar had had a vision that it would be at Torio that he would see the Desired One.
Who acts: Torio, La, vision · What happens: not be, have, be, see, desire · To what, where: usual place, vision, Torio, One
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 (Torio, La, vision), 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 | Torio | Torio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 place | advmod |
| 4 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Niamat | Niamat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Makhdum | flat |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Makhdum | case |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 residence | case |
| 10 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 13 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 14 | Ikhtyar | Ikhtyar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 La | flat |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | aux |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 place | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 vision | det |
| 18 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 Torio | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Torio | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 Torio | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Torio | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Torio | case |
| 24 | Torio | Torio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 vision | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Desired | det |
| 30 | Desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 see | xcomp |
| 31 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 Desired | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Torio | Makhdum's usual place | of residence; Makhdum nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | La | a vision | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | would | vision | Torio | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | would | Torio | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | desire | participle | Torio not said here | One | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=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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