Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 7
But as Makhdum sat, the fakir’s tame birds of which he had a large number suddenly flew away.
Who acts: Makhdum, fakir, large number · What happens: sit, have, fly away · To what, where: tame birds, large number
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 (Makhdum, fakir, large number), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 3 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 birds | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fakir | det |
| 7 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 birds | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 fakir | case |
| 9 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 birds | amod |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 birds | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 number | amod |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 number | acl:relcl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Makhdum | the fakir's tame birds | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | fakir | a large number | of the fakir's tame birds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | |||
| 3 | fly away | past | a large number not said here | away, suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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