Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 31
He was convinced that the masons and the Swami were acting in collusion and he set a guard of English soldiers over Sadh Belo.
Who acts: action, masons · What happens: be, act, set · To what, where: collusion, guard, Sadh
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, masons), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 convinced | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 convinced | cop |
| 3 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 acting | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 masons | det |
| 6 | masons | mason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 acting | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Swami | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Swami | det |
| 9 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 masons | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 acting | aux |
| 11 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 convinced | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 collusion | case |
| 13 | collusion | collusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acting | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 convinced | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 guard | det |
| 18 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 soldiers | case |
| 20 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 soldiers | compound |
| 21 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 guard | nmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 Sadh | case |
| 23 | Sadh | Sadh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 24 | Belo | Belo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sadh | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 convinced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | action | convinced property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | act | past · progressive | the masons and the Swami | collusion | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | set | past | action | a guard of English soldiers | Sadh | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme over sadh=Destination |
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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