Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 56
Next day the parrot and the maina flew back to the ship and perched in the rigging.
Who acts: parrot · What happens: fly back, perch · To what, where: ship, rigging
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 (parrot), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parrot | det |
| 4 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 maina | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maina | det |
| 7 | maina | maina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parrot | conj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 perched | cc |
| 14 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 flew | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 rigging | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rigging | det |
| 17 | rigging | rigging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perched | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly back | past | the parrot and the maina | the ship | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ship=Destination | |||
| 2 | perch | participle | the parrot and the maina not said here | the rigging | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rigging=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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