Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 22
Many and great were the miracles recorded of Swami Vankhandi, but the one that will interest English readers most is the summary way in which he dealt with a certain Captain Pauk Wales, a gentleman whom I have not been able to trace in English works of reference.
Who acts: Swami, gentleman · What happens: be, record, deal, not be, trace, work · To what, where: Many miracles, summary way, English
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, gentleman), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 miracles | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 great | cc |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Many | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 miracles | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 miracles | det |
| 6 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 miracles | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Swami | case |
| 9 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recorded | obl:agent |
| 10 | Vankhandi | Vankhandi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Swami | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 miracles | appos |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 will | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 will | nsubj |
| 18 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 readers | amod |
| 19 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 interest | conj |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 way | advmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 way | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 23 | summary | summary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 interest | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 dealt | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dealt | nsubj |
| 28 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 way | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 Wales | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 Wales | det |
| 31 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Wales | amod |
| 32 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Wales | compound |
| 33 | Pauk | Pauk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Wales | compound |
| 34 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 works | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 gentleman | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 gentleman | det |
| 37 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 works | nsubj |
| 38 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 able | nsubj |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 able | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 able | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 able | advmod |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 able | cop |
| 43 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 gentleman | acl:relcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 trace | mark |
| 45 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 able | xcomp |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 English | case |
| 47 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 trace | obl |
| 48 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 dealt | parataxis |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 reference | case |
| 50 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 works | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 miracles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Many miracles | the one appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | record | participle | the Many miracles not said here | Swami obl:agent | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the summary way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | deal | past | Swami | the summary way | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not is | present · perfect | a gentleman | I nsubj; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | trace | to-infinitive | a gentleman not said here | English | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in english=Destination | ||||
| 7 | work | present | a gentleman | with a certain Captain Pauk Wales; of reference | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wales=Co-Agent |
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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