Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 9
When the fakir’s pets learnt this, they had flown away in terror.
Who acts: pets · What happens: learn, fly away · To what, where: this, pets, terror
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 (pets), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 learnt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fakir | det |
| 3 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pets | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 fakir | case |
| 5 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learnt | nsubj |
| 6 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flown | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 learnt | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 learnt | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flown | aux |
| 11 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 flown | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 terror | case |
| 14 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flown | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the fakir's pets | this | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly away | past · perfect · passive | pets = pet | terror | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in terror=Location |
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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