Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 42
As he looked landwards, he saw a parrot and a maina fly to the ship and perch in the rigging.
Who acts: king · What happens: look, see · To what, where: landwards, parrot
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 (king), 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 | _ | 3 looked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 4 | landwards | landward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 parrot | det |
| 9 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fly | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fly | det |
| 12 | maina | maina | X | _ | 13 fly | compound |
| 13 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parrot | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ship | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fly | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 perch | cc |
| 18 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ship | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 rigging | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rigging | det |
| 21 | rigging | rigging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fly | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | king | landwards | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme landward=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | past | king | a parrot and a maina fly to the ship and perch in the rigging | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=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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