Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 305
Dalu Rai looked towards the horizon and saw a huge mass of sand like a tidal wave advancing on Brahmanabad.
Who acts: Dalu, tidal wave · What happens: look, see, advance · To what, where: huge mass, Brahmanabad
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, tidal wave), 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 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dalu | flat |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 horizon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horizon | det |
| 6 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mass | det |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mass | amod |
| 11 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mass | nmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 wave | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wave | det |
| 16 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wave | amod |
| 17 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sand | nmod |
| 18 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 wave | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Brahmanabad | case |
| 20 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 advancing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Dalu | towards the horizon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards horizon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Dalu not said here | a huge mass of sand like a tidal wave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | advance | gerund | a tidal wave not said here | Brahmanabad | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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