Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 45
At first nothing happened and the faithful began to murmur discordantly at the failure of the two saints.
Who acts: nothing, faithful, two saints · What happens: happen, begin, murmur, fail · To what, where: failure
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 (nothing, faithful, two saints), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 happened | obl |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 faithful | det |
| 7 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 murmur | mark |
| 10 | murmur | murmur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | discordantly | discordantly | ADV | _ | 10 murmur | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 failure | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 failure | det |
| 14 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 murmur | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 saints | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 saints | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 saints | nummod |
| 18 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 failure | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at first=Location | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the faithful | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | to-infinitive | the faithful not said here | the failure of the two saints | discordantly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at failure=Location | |||
| 4 | fail | the two saints | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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