Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 86
Straightway they hastened to Nerankot and one evening Shah Makai saw the lovely girl astride of her lion, riding outside the walls.
Who acts: Straightway, Shah · What happens: hasten, see, ride · To what, where: Nerankot, lovely girl
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 (Straightway, Shah), 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 | Straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Nerankot | case |
| 5 | Nerankot | Nerankot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 evening | nummod |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | Makai | Makai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Shah | flat |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | astride | astride | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 lion | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 astride | fixed |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 riding | punct |
| 20 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | advcl |
| 21 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 23 walls | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 walls | det |
| 23 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 riding | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | Straightway | Nerankot | friends = friend nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to nerankot=Result | |||
| 2 | see | past | Shah | the lovely girl | evening | astride Straightway's lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | ride | gerund | Shah not said here | outside the walls | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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