Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 87
Both father and son were renowned as poets and musicians and childless couples who desired off-spring, used to visit their tomb and try and win the favour of their spirits by songs and instruments.
Who acts: childless couples · What happens: renown, desire, use, visit, try, win · To what, where: father, tomb, favour, spirits
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 (childless couples), 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 2 father | cc:preconj |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 renowned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 son | cc |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 renowned | aux:pass |
| 6 | renowned | renown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 poets | case |
| 8 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 renowned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 musicians | cc |
| 10 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 poets | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 couples | cc |
| 12 | childless | childless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 couples | amod |
| 13 | couples | couple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 poets | conj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 desired | nsubj |
| 15 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 couples | acl:relcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 spring | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 off | punct |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 desired | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 used | punct |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 poets | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 visit | mark |
| 22 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 used | xcomp |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 visit | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 try | cc |
| 26 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 visit | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 win | cc |
| 28 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 visit | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 favour | det |
| 30 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 win | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 spirits | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 33 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 favour | nmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 songs | case |
| 35 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 win | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 instruments | cc |
| 37 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 songs | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 renowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renown | past · passive | father and son | as poets and musicians and childless couples | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | past | childless couples | spring | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | visit | to-infinitive | couples's tomb | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | try | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | win | infinitive | the favour of tombs's spirits | by songs and instruments | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | favour | tombs's spirits | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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