Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 29
The Brohi tried in vain to bring it back to life.
Who acts: Brohi · What happens: try, bring back · To what, where: vain, Brohi, life
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 (Brohi), 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 Brohi | det |
| 2 | Brohi | Brohi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tried | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the Brohi | vain | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Brohi not said here | Brohi | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to life=Destination |
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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