Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 4
They rise all round, as one is poled in boats through lanes cut among the reeds and quick eye and hand are needed before they can be bagged.
Who acts: reeds · What happens: rise, pole, cut, need, bag · To what, where: boats, lanes, reeds
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 (reeds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rise | nsubj |
| 2 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 round | advmod |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 rise | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 poled | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 poled | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 poled | aux:pass |
| 9 | poled | pole | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rise | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 boats | case |
| 11 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 poled | obl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 lanes | case |
| 13 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lanes | acl |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 reeds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reeds | det |
| 17 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cut | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eye | cc |
| 19 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eye | amod |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reeds | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hand | cc |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eye | conj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 needed | aux:pass |
| 24 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 poled | parataxis |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 bagged | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bagged | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 bagged | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 bagged | aux:pass |
| 29 | bagged | bag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 needed | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | reeds = reed | round property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pole | present · passive | reeds = reed not said here | boats | as one | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cut | participle | lanes not said here | among the reeds and quick eye and hand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | need | present · passive | lanes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bag | can · passive | reeds = reed | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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