Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 10
After the robbers had left, the bania began to mourn and beat his breast.
Who acts: bania · What happens: leave, begin, mourn, beat · To what, where: robbers, breast
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bania), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robbers | det |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 began | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bania | det |
| 8 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 mourn | mark |
| 11 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beat | cc |
| 13 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mourn | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 breast | nmod:poss |
| 15 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beat | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the robbers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the bania | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | mourn | to-infinitive | the bania not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | beat | infinitive | the bania not said here | bania's breast | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breast=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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