Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 33
Then Ali took it and wrote on it eighteen lines and the boat glided away.
Who acts: Ali, boat · What happens: take, write, glide away · To what, where: boat, eighteen lines
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 (Ali, boat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wrote | cc |
| 6 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wrote | obl |
| 9 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 lines | nummod |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wrote | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glided | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glided | nsubj |
| 14 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 glided | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ali | boat | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | past | Ali not said here | eighteen lines | boat | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 3 | glide away | past | the boat | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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