Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 1
Most English visitors to Tatta go there for the shooting only and I should be the last to blame them.
Who acts: Most English visitors, I · What happens: go, be, blame · To what, where: visitors
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most English visitors, I), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 visitors | amod |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 visitors | amod |
| 3 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Tatta | case |
| 5 | Tatta | Tatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 visitors | nmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 shooting | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shooting | det |
| 10 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 shooting | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 last | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 last | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 last | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 last | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 last | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 blame | mark |
| 19 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 last | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 blame | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | Most English visitors to Tatta | there | for the shooting | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for shooting=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | should | I | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blame | to-infinitive | I not said here | visitors = visitor | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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