Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 21
They touched at various ports, but although they shewed the chief men there the portrait found in the eighth chamber, none recognised it.
Who acts: companions, none · What happens: touch, shew, find, recognise · To what, where: various ports, chief men, portrait, eighth chamber
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, none), 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 | 2 touched | nsubj |
| 2 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 ports | case |
| 4 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ports | amod |
| 5 | ports | port | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 touched | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shewed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 shewed | cc |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 10 shewed | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shewed | nsubj |
| 10 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 touched | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shewed | obj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 men | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 portrait | det |
| 16 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shewed | obj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 portrait | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 chamber | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chamber | det |
| 20 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chamber | amod |
| 21 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 recognised | punct |
| 23 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 recognised | nsubj |
| 24 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shewed | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 recognised | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | companions = companion | various ports | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shew | past | companions = companion | the chief men | the portrait obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | find | participle | the portrait not said here | the eighth chamber | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | recognise | past | none | portrait | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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