Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 38
“These came into our hands,” he wrote, “but they do not belong to us.
Who acts: These, couple, hands · What happens: come, write, not belong · To what, where: hands, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, couple, hands), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wrote | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrote | nsubj |
| 10 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 belong | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 belong | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 belong | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 belong | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 belong | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 belong | advmod |
| 17 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wrote | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 belong | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | These | our hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | write | past | couple | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not belong in a quote | present · do-support | hands = hand | us | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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