Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 4
Now this is the tale that is told both of the fort and of the proverbial saying:
Who acts: this · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: tale · 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 (this), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 tale | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tale | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tale | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tale | acl:relcl |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 fort | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fort | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fort | det |
| 12 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saying | cc |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 saying | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 saying | det |
| 16 | proverbial | proverbial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 saying | amod |
| 17 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fort | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | the tale | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the tale | the fort and the proverbial saying ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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