Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 8
Several months passed by and the dog was as obedient to the bania as it had been to the Brohi.
Who acts: dog · What happens: pass by, be · To what, where: Several months
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 (dog), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 months | amod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 obedient | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obedient | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 obedient | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 obedient | advmod |
| 10 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 passed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bania | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bania | det |
| 13 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obedient | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Brohi | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Brohi | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Brohi | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 Brohi | cop |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Brohi | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Brohi | det |
| 20 | Brohi | Brohi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 obedient | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle · passive | Several months | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the dog | to the bania; obedient property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | dog | as the Brohi | tree rules |
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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