Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 12
When the army appeared at Muran Jharee, they found Swami Vankhandi absorbed in contemplation.
Who acts: army, food, Swami · What happens: appear, find, absorb · To what, where: Muran, contemplation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army, food, Swami), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 appeared | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 army | det |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Muran | case |
| 6 | Muran | Muran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 7 | Jharee | Jharee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Muran | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 absorbed | nsubj |
| 12 | Vankhandi | Vankhandi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Swami | flat |
| 13 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 contemplation | case |
| 15 | contemplation | contemplation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 absorbed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the army | Muran | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at muran=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | food | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | absorb | past | Swami | contemplation | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal |
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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