Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 22
Now it so chanced that the Brohi hillman had by working in the plains saved a sum sufficient to pay off his debt and he was returning to the hills to do so.
Who acts: dog, Brohi hillman, hillman · What happens: chance, have, work, save, pay off, return · To what, where: sum, plains, debt
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, Brohi hillman, hillman), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 chanced | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chanced | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 chanced | advmod |
| 4 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hillman | det |
| 7 | Brohi | Brohi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hillman | compound |
| 8 | hillman | hillman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chanced | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 working | mark |
| 11 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 plains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 plains | det |
| 14 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saved | obl |
| 15 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 working | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sum | det |
| 17 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saved | obj |
| 18 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sum | amod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pay | mark |
| 20 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sufficient | advcl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 pay | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 debt | nmod:poss |
| 23 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pay | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 returning | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 returning | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 returning | aux |
| 27 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 had | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 hills | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hills | det |
| 30 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 returning | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 do | mark |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 returning | advcl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 do | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | dog | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Brohi hillman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | the Brohi hillman not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | save | past | the Brohi hillman not said here | a sum | the plains | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | |||
| 5 | pay off | to-infinitive | the Brohi hillman not said here | hillman's debt | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset | ||||
| 6 | return | past · progressive | hillman | to the hills result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hill=Result | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | hillman not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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