Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 4
The Brohi was at one time rich, but from one cause or another he lost his wealth and of all his riches nothing was left to him but his dog.
Who acts: Brohi, hillman · What happens: be, lose, leave · To what, where: wealth, one cause, nothing, hillman
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Brohi | det |
| 2 | Brohi | Brohi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rich | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 rich | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 time | nummod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rich | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 lost | cc |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 cause | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 cause | nummod |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 another | cc |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 cause | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rich | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 left | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 riches | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 riches | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 riches | nmod:poss |
| 23 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 left | obl |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 left | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | aux:pass |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lost | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 left | obl |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 dog | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 dog | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 him | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Brohi | time | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | past | hillman | hillman's wealth | one cause | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme from cause=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | nothing | hillman | of hillman's riches | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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