Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 107
I long tried in vain to learn its history but at last I obtained from Mr. Bherumal, Inspector of Excise, the following legend.
Who acts: I · What happens: try, learn, obtain, follow · To what, where: vain, history, last
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 tried | advmod |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tried | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 learn | mark |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | advcl |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 history | nmod:poss |
| 9 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 obtained | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 obtained | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 obtained | nsubj |
| 14 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Bherumal | case |
| 16 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Bherumal | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Bherumal | Bherumal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 obtained | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Inspector | punct |
| 19 | Inspector | inspector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bherumal | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Excise | case |
| 21 | Excise | excise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Inspector | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 legend | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 legend | det |
| 24 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 legend | amod |
| 25 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bherumal | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | I | vain | long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | I not said here | place's history | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic | ||||
| 3 | obtain | past | I | last | from Bherumal Mr. | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from bherumal=Source | |||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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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