Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 32
The boy went up to the boat and Jesus took his slate and wrote on one side of it fourteen lines.
Who acts: boy, Jesus · What happens: go up, take, write · To what, where: slate, fourteen lines, one side
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 (boy, Jesus), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 9 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 slate | nmod:poss |
| 12 | slate | slate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wrote | cc |
| 14 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 side | nummod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wrote | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 side | nmod |
| 20 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 lines | nummod |
| 21 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wrote | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the boy | to the boat | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Jesus | Jesus's slate | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write | past | Jesus not said here | fourteen lines | one side of boat | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme on side=Destination |
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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