Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 17
At last they returned to Kathmandu and just outside the walls, they found the Swami sitting in a deep religious trance, in the shade of a banian tree.
Who acts: General, Swami · What happens: return, find, sit, shade · To what, where: Kathmandu, last, Swami, deep religious trance, banian tree
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 (General, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 returned | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Kathmandu | case |
| 6 | Kathmandu | Kathmandu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walls | cc |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 walls | advmod |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 11 walls | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 walls | det |
| 11 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Kathmandu | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Swami | det |
| 16 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 found | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 trance | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 trance | det |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trance | amod |
| 21 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trance | amod |
| 22 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sitting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shade | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 shade | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shade | det |
| 26 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sitting | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 29 | banian | banian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tree | amod |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shade | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | General | Kathmandu and the walls | last | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kathmandu=Result | |||
| 2 | find | past | General | the Swami | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent swami=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | the Swami not said here | a deep religious trance | in the shade of a banian tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trance=Location | |||
| 4 | shade | a banian tree | nom shade «state 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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