Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 57
On the other hand, no doubt, the Portuguese Governor-General dreamed visions of a second northern province on the banks of the Indus.
Who acts: Portuguese Governor · What happens: dream · To what, where: visions, other hand
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 (Portuguese Governor), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dreamed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 doubt | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 doubt | det |
| 7 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Governor | det |
| 10 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Governor | compound |
| 11 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dreamed | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 General | punct |
| 13 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Governor | appos |
| 14 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dreamed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 province | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 province | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 province | amod |
| 19 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 province | amod |
| 20 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 visions | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 banks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 banks | det |
| 23 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 province | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Indus | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Indus | det |
| 26 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 banks | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | the Portuguese Governor | visions of a second northern province on the banks of the Indus | the other hand and no doubt | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Topic |
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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