Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 16
With these words the Swami vanished and although the General and his officers searched for him everywhere, they could not find him.
Who acts: Swami, General · What happens: vanish, search, not find · To what, where: Swami
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 (Swami, General), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vanished | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Swami | det |
| 5 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 vanished | nsubj |
| 6 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 searched | cc |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 searched | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 General | det |
| 10 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 searched | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 officers | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 officers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 General | conj |
| 14 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vanished | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 searched | obl |
| 17 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 searched | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 find | advmod |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 vanished | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the Swami | with this words | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | search | past | the General and Swami's officers | for Swami; everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | General | Swami | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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