Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 31
In his grief, he bore the dog’s body to the highest peak of the neighbouring mountains and buried it there.
Who acts: man · What happens: bear, neighbour, bury · To what, where: body, grief, dog
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 grief | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grief | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grief | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bore | nsubj |
| 6 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 peak | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 peak | det |
| 13 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 peak | amod |
| 14 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountains | det |
| 17 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 mountains | amod |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 peak | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buried | cc |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bore | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 buried | obj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 buried | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | man | the dog's body | man's grief | to the highest peak of the neighbouring mountains | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||
| 2 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bury | past | man not said here | dog | there | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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