Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 15
The bania and his neighbours also began to dig; at last they came upon the bania’s safe with his money secure inside it.
Who acts: bania, neighbours, money · What happens: begin, dig, come, secure · To what, where: last
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, neighbours, money), 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 | 2 bania | det |
| 2 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 neighbours | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bania | conj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 began | advmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 dig | mark |
| 9 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 19 safe | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bania | det |
| 17 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 safe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 bania | case |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 23 secure | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 money | nmod:poss |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 secure | nsubj |
| 23 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 safe | advcl |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 secure | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the bania and bania's neighbours | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | dig | to-infinitive | the bania and bania's neighbours not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | neighbours = neighbour | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 4 | secure | infinitive | bania's money | inside dog | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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