Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 116
His methods were simpler and more efficient.
Who acts: methods · What happens: be
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 (methods), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 methods | nmod:poss |
| 2 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 simpler | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 simpler | cop |
| 4 | simpler | simple | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 efficient | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 efficient | advmod |
| 7 | efficient | efficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 simpler | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 simpler | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Adam's methods | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Adam's methods not said here | tree rules |
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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