Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 100
He was nicknamed the “Dukario” or “Famine Man” and every one who passed his grave used regularly to heave a stone at it.
Who acts: one · What happens: nickname, pass, use, heave · To what, where: Beg, grave, stone
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 (one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nicknamed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nicknamed | aux:pass |
| 3 | nicknamed | nickname | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dukario | det |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dukario | punct |
| 6 | Dukario | Dukario | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nicknamed | xcomp |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dukario | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Man | cc |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Man | punct |
| 10 | Famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | compound |
| 11 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nicknamed | conj |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Man | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 grave | nmod:poss |
| 19 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obj |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 passed | xcomp |
| 21 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 20 used | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 heave | mark |
| 23 | heave | heave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 used | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stone | det |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heave | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heave | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nicknamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nickname | past · passive | Beg | the Dukario xcomp; Famine Man and every one conj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | every one | Beg's grave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | every one not said here | regularly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | heave | to-infinitive | every one not said here | a stone | grave | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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