Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 315
The youth was skilled in swordmanship but even so he was no match for Dalu Rai, who was a master of the art.
Who acts: youth, match · What happens: skill, be · To what, where: youth, swordmanship, match, master
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 (youth, match), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skilled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 skilled | aux:pass |
| 4 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 swordmanship | case |
| 6 | swordmanship | swordmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skilled | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 match | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 match | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 13 match | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 match | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 match | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 match | det |
| 13 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skilled | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Dalu | case |
| 15 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 match | nmod |
| 16 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Dalu | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 master | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 master | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 master | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 master | det |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 match | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 art | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 art | det |
| 24 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 master | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 skilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skill | past · passive | the youth | swordmanship | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | youth | no match | for Dalu | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | no match | a master | of the art | tree rules |
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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