Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 13
As they watched him their own warlike spirit ebbed away and they were filled with a great calm; without saying a word they waited until the Swami thought fit to lift his eyes towards them.
Who acts: food, Swami · What happens: watch, ebb away, fill, say, wait, think · To what, where: army, own warlike spirit, food, word, eyes · 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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 watched | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | obj |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spirit | amod |
| 7 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spirit | amod |
| 8 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | obj |
| 9 | ebbed | ebb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 spirit | acl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 ebbed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 filled | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 watched | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 calm | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 calm | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 calm | amod |
| 18 | calm | calm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 saying | mark |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 watched | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 word | det |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saying | obj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 waited | nsubj |
| 25 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 word | acl:relcl |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 thought | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Swami | det |
| 28 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 waited | advcl |
| 30 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thought | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 lift | mark |
| 32 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 fit | xcomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 lift | obj |
| 35 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 lift | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | food | army | food's own warlike spirit obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme spirit=Attribute | |||
| 2 | ebb away | participle | food's own warlike spirit not said here | away property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | food | with a great calm | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with calm=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | food not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wait | past | food | a word not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the Swami | fit property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | lift | to-infinitive | the Swami not said here | Swami's eyes | towards food | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards they=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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