Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 85
As the two friends journeyed through Sind, they came to hear the fame of Nigar’s beauty and courage.
Who acts: two friends, friends · What happens: journey, come, hear · To what, where: Sind, fame
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 (two friends, friends), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 journeyed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 friends | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 friends | nummod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 journeyed | nsubj |
| 5 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | advcl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 Sind | case |
| 7 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 journeyed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 journeyed | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fame | det |
| 14 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hear | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 beauty | case |
| 16 | Nigar | Nigar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Nigar | case |
| 18 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fame | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 courage | cc |
| 20 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beauty | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | the two friends | Sind | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sind=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | friends = friend | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | the fame of Nigar's beauty and courage | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fame=Stimulus |
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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