Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 47
Another half hour’s steady prayer and the great edifice began to quiver.
Who acts: steady prayer, half hour · What happens: begin, quiver, pray
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 (steady prayer, half hour), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 hour | det |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 hour | compound |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 5 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prayer | amod |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 edifice | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edifice | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 edifice | amod |
| 10 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prayer | conj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 quiver | mark |
| 13 | quiver | quiver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | another half hour's steady prayer and the great edifice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | quiver | to-infinitive | another half hour's steady prayer and the great edifice not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pray | another half hour | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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