Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 118
Once firmly seated in its upper branches, he made the wretched vegetable drag its roots from Larkana to Kambar, a distance of twelve miles.
Who acts: Adam · What happens: seat, make · To what, where: upper branches, wretched vegetable drag, Kambar, Larkana
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 (Adam), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 seated | advmod |
| 2 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 3 seated | advmod |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 branches | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 branches | nmod:poss |
| 6 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 branches | amod |
| 7 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drag | det |
| 12 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drag | amod |
| 13 | vegetable | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drag | compound |
| 14 | drag | drag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 roots | nmod:poss |
| 16 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drag | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Larkana | case |
| 18 | Larkana | Larkana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Kambar | case |
| 20 | Kambar | Kambar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 distance | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 distance | det |
| 23 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Kambar | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 miles | case |
| 25 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 miles | nummod |
| 26 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 distance | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | tree's upper branches | firmly, once property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Adam | the wretched vegetable drag tree's roots | Kambar | Larkana | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent drag=Product from larkana=Material |
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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