Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 327
The sandwave caught them and stifled them, until at last there was not a living soul left in Brahmanabad.
Who acts: sandwave · What happens: catch, stifle, leave · To what, where: burghers, living soul, 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 (sandwave), 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 sandwave | det |
| 2 | sandwave | sandwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stifled | cc |
| 6 | stifled | stifle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stifled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 last | punct |
| 9 | until | until | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stifled | conj |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 last | acl:relcl |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 soul | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 soul | det |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soul | compound |
| 17 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 soul | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Brahmanabad | case |
| 20 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the sandwave | burghers = burgher | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stifle | past | the sandwave not said here | burghers = burgher | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | a living soul not said here | in Brahmanabad result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in brahmanabad=Result |
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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