Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 26
There he lived for twenty years until such time as Sir Charles Napier conquered Sind and appointed Captain Pauk Wales as Collector of the Shikarpur district.
Who acts: Haidarabad, Charles · What happens: live, conquer, appoint · To what, where: Sind, Captain Pauk Wales
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 (Haidarabad, Charles), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 conquered | mark |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 conquered | nsubj |
| 13 | Napier | Napier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Charles | flat |
| 14 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | advcl |
| 15 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 conquered | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 appointed | cc |
| 17 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 conquered | conj |
| 18 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wales | compound |
| 19 | Pauk | Pauk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wales | compound |
| 20 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 appointed | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Collector | case |
| 22 | Collector | Collector | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 appointed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 district | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 district | det |
| 25 | Shikarpur | Shikarpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 district | compound |
| 26 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Collector | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Haidarabad | there | time; year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | conquer | past | Charles Sir | Sind | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | appoint | past | Charles Sir not said here | Captain Pauk Wales | as Collector of the Shikarpur district | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wales=Theme as collector=Attribute |
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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