Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 39
He was the Jam who loved the fisher maiden Nuri and was the ancestor of the Jadeja Raos of Cutch.
Who acts: Chief, Jam · What happens: be, love · To what, where: Jam, fisher, ancestor
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 (Chief, Jam), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Jam | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Jam | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Jam | det |
| 4 | Jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 loved | nsubj |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Jam | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fisher | det |
| 8 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loved | obj |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Nuri | amod |
| 10 | Nuri | Nuri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fisher | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ancestor | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ancestor | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ancestor | det |
| 14 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loved | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Raos | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Raos | det |
| 17 | Jadeja | Jadeja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Raos | compound |
| 18 | Raos | Raos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ancestor | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Cutch | case |
| 20 | Cutch | Cutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Raos | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Jam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Chief | the Jam | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | the Jam | the fisher | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fisher=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Jam not said here | the ancestor | of the Jadeja Raos of Cutch | 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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