Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 136
Opening it they found it, not only to their own amazement but to that of the quondam police guard, by no means empty.
Who acts: troops · What happens: open, find, mean, amaze · To what, where: box · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (troops), 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 | Opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 found | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Opening | obj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 amazement | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 amazement | advmod |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 amazement | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 amazement | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 amazement | amod |
| 12 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 that | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 amazement | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 guard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guard | det |
| 18 | quondam | quondam | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 guard | amod |
| 19 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guard | compound |
| 20 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 that | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 no | case |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 means | obl |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 25 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 means | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | troops | box | to troops's own amazement to that of the quondam police guard | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | mean | present | by no; empty property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | amaze | troops | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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