Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 24
Cholera was then raging in Haidarabad, but the Swami’s presence proved sufficient to drive it away.
Who acts: Cholera, presence · What happens: rage, prove, drive away · To what, where: Haidarabad, presence
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 (Cholera, presence), 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 | Cholera | cholera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raging | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raging | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 raging | advmod |
| 4 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Haidarabad | case |
| 6 | Haidarabad | Haidarabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raging | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proved | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 proved | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Swami | det |
| 10 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 presence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Swami | case |
| 12 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proved | nsubj |
| 13 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raging | conj |
| 14 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 proved | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drive | mark |
| 16 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 proved | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drive | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 drive | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past · progressive | Cholera | Haidarabad | then | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haidarabad=Location | |||
| 2 | prove | past | the Swami's presence | sufficient property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive away | to-infinitive | the Swami's presence not said here | presence | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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