Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 26
A man of high honour, he grew very angry and holding out the fingers of his right hand made the bhundo sign in the dog’s face.
Who acts: man, holding · What happens: grow, hold out, make · To what, where: fingers, bhundo sign, face
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 (man, holding), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 honour | case |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 honour | amod |
| 5 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 angry | advmod |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 12 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 made | csubj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 holding | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fingers | det |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 holding | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hand | amod |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fingers | nmod |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sign | det |
| 22 | bhundo | bhundo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sign | compound |
| 23 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dog | det |
| 26 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 face | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 dog | case |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a man of high honour | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold out | gerund | the fingers of man's right hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past | holding | the bhundo sign | the dog's face | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
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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