Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 32
Although the soldiers never closed their eyes all night, Captain Pauk Wales next day found that not only had the masonry work been thrown down in the night, but that the bricks, mortar and all the building materials collected by him had vanished.
Who acts: soldiers, Pauk next day, bricks · What happens: not close, find, not have, throw down, collect, vanish · To what, where: eyes, masonry work, building materials · 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 (soldiers, Pauk next day, bricks), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 closed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldiers | det |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 closed | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 closed | advmod |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 closed | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 closed | punct |
| 11 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Pauk | compound |
| 12 | Pauk | Pauk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 13 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Pauk | flat |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 had | advmod |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 work | det |
| 22 | masonry | masonry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 work | compound |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 thrown | aux:pass |
| 25 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 had | parataxis |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 thrown | compound:prt |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 night | det |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thrown | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 vanished | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 vanished | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 vanished | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bricks | det |
| 34 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 vanished | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 mortar | punct |
| 36 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bricks | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 materials | cc |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 materials | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 materials | det |
| 40 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 materials | compound |
| 41 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 bricks | conj |
| 42 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 materials | acl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 collected | obl |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 vanished | aux |
| 46 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 thrown | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not close | past | the soldiers | soldiers's eyes | night | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | past | Pauk next day | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | throw down | participle · passive | the masonry work | night | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | collect | participle | all building materials not said here | by action | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | vanish | past · perfect | the bricks and mortar and all building materials | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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