Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 50
Legend, however, relates that he never struck the ground, nor was he dashed to pieces.
Who acts: Legend · What happens: relate, not strike, dash · To what, where: ground, Legend
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 (Legend), 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 | Legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 relates | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Legend | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 relates | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | relates | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 struck | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 struck | advmod |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 relates | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dashed | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 dashed | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dashed | aux:pass |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dashed | nsubj |
| 16 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 struck | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 pieces | case |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dashed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 relates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present | Legend | however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not strike | past | Legend | the ground | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dash | past · passive | Legend | to pieces result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result |
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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