Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 61
Isa Khan sent word from Bukkur that he no longer needed Portuguese help.
Who acts: Isa · What happens: send, need · To what, where: word, Bukkur, Portuguese help
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 (Isa), 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 | Isa | Isa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Isa | flat |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Bukkur | case |
| 6 | Bukkur | Bukkur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 needed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 needed | nsubj |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 needed | advmod |
| 11 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | advcl |
| 12 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 help | amod |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Isa | word | Bukkur | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent word=Theme from bukkur=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | need | past | Isa | Portuguese help | long property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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