Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 40
The chief minister was sitting in the bows straining his eyes trying to get a glimpse of the land.
Who acts: chief minister, bows, eyes · What happens: sit, strain, try, get, glimpse · To what, where: bows, eyes, glimpse, land
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 (chief minister, bows, eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 minister | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bows | det |
| 8 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | straining | strain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bows | acl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 straining | obj |
| 12 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 eyes | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trying | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 glimpse | det |
| 16 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glimpse | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the chief minister | the bows | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bow=Location | ||||
| 2 | strain | gerund | the bows not said here | minister's eyes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | minister's eyes not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | minister's eyes not said here | a glimpse of the land | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | glimpse | the land | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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