Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 119
In the deep hollow caused by the progress of the Kando tree, flowed the obedient water.
Who acts: Kando tree · What happens: cause, flow, progress · To what, where: deep hollow, obedient water
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 (Kando tree), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hollow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hollow | det |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hollow | amod |
| 4 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flowed | obl |
| 5 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hollow | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 progress | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 progress | det |
| 8 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | Kando | Kando | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 progress | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hollow | punct |
| 14 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 16 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 water | amod |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flowed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | participle | the deep hollow not said here | by the progress of the Kando tree | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the obedient water | the deep hollow | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | progress | the Kando tree | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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