Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 9
One night a band of fierce robbers broke into the house of the bania, over-powered the inmates and carried off the savings of the merchant’s life-time.
Who acts: band · What happens: break, over-power, carry off, save · To what, where: house, inmates, savings, life time
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 (band), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 band | det |
| 4 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 robbers | case |
| 6 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 robbers | amod |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 band | nmod |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bania | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bania | det |
| 14 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 over-powered | punct |
| 16 | over-powered | over-power | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broke | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inmates | det |
| 18 | inmates | inmate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 over-powered | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 over-powered | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 carried | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 savings | det |
| 23 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 carried | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 merchant | det |
| 26 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 merchant | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 life | punct |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 savings | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a band of fierce robbers | night | into the house of the bania result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into house=Result | |||
| 2 | over-power | past | a band of fierce robbers not said here | the inmates | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past | a band of fierce robbers not said here | the savings of the merchant's life time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | the merchant's life time | nom savings «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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