Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 42
The faithful, too, of Tatta had been bragging loudly to their neighbours about their future mosque and they now would be exposed to their mocking laughter.
Who acts: Tatta · What happens: brag, expose · To what, where: neighbours, words, mocking laughter
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 (Tatta), 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 faithful | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 faithful | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bragging | punct |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 bragging | mark |
| 7 | Tatta | Tatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bragging | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bragging | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 bragging | aux |
| 10 | bragging | brag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 faithful | advcl |
| 11 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 10 bragging | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 neighbours | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 14 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bragging | obl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 mosque | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mosque | nmod:poss |
| 17 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mosque | amod |
| 18 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 neighbours | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 exposed | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 exposed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 exposed | advmod |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 exposed | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 exposed | aux:pass |
| 24 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 neighbours | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 laughter | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mocking | mocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laughter | compound |
| 28 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 exposed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 faithful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brag speech: other | past · perfect · progressive | Tatta | words's neighbours about words's future mosque | loudly property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient | |||
| 2 | expose | would · passive | words = word | words's mocking laughter | now | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to laughter=Recipient |
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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