Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 18
The latter was so touched at the dog’s fidelity and sense that he tied round its neck a letter to the Brohi.
Who acts: bania · What happens: touch, tie · To what, where: latter, fidelity, letter
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 touched | advmod |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 fidelity | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fidelity | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 10 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sense | cc |
| 12 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fidelity | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 tied | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tied | nsubj |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | advcl |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 neck | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 letter | det |
| 20 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Brohi | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Brohi | det |
| 23 | Brohi | Brohi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 letter | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | the latter | the dog's fidelity and sense | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | bania | a letter | round dog's neck; to the Brohi | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent letter=Patient to brohi=Co-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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