Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 21
Then he vanished and in the twinkling of an eye was once more to be seen at his own place in Muran Jharee.
Who acts: Maharaja · What happens: vanish, be, see · To what, where: twinkling, own place
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 (Maharaja), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 vanished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 twinkling | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 twinkling | det |
| 7 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 eye | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 eye | det |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twinkling | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 more | cop |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 vanished | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vanished | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 place | amod |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Muran | case |
| 22 | Muran | Muran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 place | nmod |
| 23 | Jharee | Jharee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Muran | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | Maharaja | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Maharaja not said here | the twinkling of a eye | more, once property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | Maharaja not said here | Maharaja's own place in Muran | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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