Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 3
We, however, are only concerned with his second incarnation, which occurred in or about A.D.
Who acts: We, second incarnation · What happens: be, occur
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 (We, second incarnation), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 concerned | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 We | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 concerned | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 concerned | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 concerned | advmod |
| 7 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 incarnation | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 incarnation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 incarnation | amod |
| 11 | incarnation | incarnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concerned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 occurred | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 occurred | nsubj |
| 14 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 incarnation | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 occurred | advmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 A.D | cc |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 A.D | case |
| 18 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 in | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 concerned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | with Swami's second incarnation; concerned, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | occur | past | Swami's second incarnation | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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