Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 30
But every morning that he went to look at the work, he found that during the night it had been levelled with the ground.
Who acts: action · What happens: go, look, find, levell · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (action), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 went | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 work | det |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 levelled | mark |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 levelled | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 levelled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 levelled | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 levelled | aux:pass |
| 22 | levelled | levell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | ccomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 ground | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ground | det |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 levelled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | action | morning | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | action not said here | at the work | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at work=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | action | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | levell | past · perfect · passive | work | night | with the ground | tree rules |
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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