Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 51
A divine hand caught him as he fell and put him safely on his feet.
Who acts: divine hand, Legend · What happens: catch, fall, put · To what, where: Legend, feet
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 (divine hand, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 2 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hand | amod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 fell | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | a divine hand | Legend | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Legend | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | Legend not said here | Legend | Legend's feet | safely property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on foot=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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