Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 59
The gallant Pedro duly sailed up the Indus and reaching Tatta asked for orders.
Who acts: gallant Pedro, reaching · What happens: sail up, reach, ask · To what, where: Indus, Tatta · 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 (gallant Pedro, reaching), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pedro | det |
| 2 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Pedro | amod |
| 3 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | duly | duly | ADV | _ | 5 sailed | advmod |
| 5 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 sailed | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Indus | det |
| 8 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sailed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 10 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 asked | csubj |
| 11 | Tatta | Tatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reaching | obj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailed | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 orders | case |
| 14 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 asked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail up | past | the gallant Pedro | the Indus | duly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indus=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | gerund | Tatta | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tatta=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | reaching | for orders | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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