Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 71
They were the proper stuff to hand out to the back-biters.
Who acts: lines · What happens: be, hand out · To what, where: proper stuff, back biters
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 (lines), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuff | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuff | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stuff | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stuff | amod |
| 5 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hand | mark |
| 7 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stuff | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 hand | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 biters | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 biters | det |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 biters | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 back | punct |
| 13 | biters | biter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hand | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lines = line | the proper stuff | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hand out | to-infinitive | the back biters | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to biter=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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