Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 21
Off it went wagging its tail and barking delightedly at the thought of seeing its old master.
Who acts: dog, thought · What happens: go, wag, bark, see · To what, where: tail, old master
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 (dog, thought), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wagging | wag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wagging | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 barking | cc |
| 8 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 wagging | conj |
| 9 | delightedly | delightedly | ADV | _ | 8 barking | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 thought | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thought | det |
| 12 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 barking | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | mark |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 thought | acl |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 master | amod |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seeing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dog | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wag | gerund | dog not said here | dog's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bark | gerund | dog not said here | at the thought; delightedly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at thought=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | the thought not said here | dog's old master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus |
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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