Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 71
To slit their ears and noses and shave off their beards was the favourite pastime of his leisure moments.
Who acts: beards · What happens: slit, shave off, be · To what, where: ears, favourite pastime
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 (beards), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 slit | mark |
| 2 | slit | slit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shave | advcl |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slit | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 noses | cc |
| 6 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ears | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shave | cc |
| 8 | shave | shave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 shave | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beards | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beards | beard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pastime | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pastime | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pastime | det |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pastime | amod |
| 15 | pastime | pastime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shave | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 moments | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 moments | nmod:poss |
| 18 | leisure | leisure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moments | amod |
| 19 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pastime | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slit | to-infinitive | people's ears and noses | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | |||||
| 2 | shave off | present | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | people's beards | the favourite pastime | moment | 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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