Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 34
While Captain Pauk Wales was swearing horribly, the Swami, shocked beyond measure, vanished into thin air.
Who acts: Pauk Wales, Swami · What happens: swear, vanish · To what, where: thin air
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 (Pauk Wales, Swami), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 swearing | mark |
| 2 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pauk | compound |
| 3 | Pauk | Pauk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wales | compound |
| 4 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 swearing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 swearing | aux |
| 6 | swearing | swear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 vanished | advcl |
| 7 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 6 swearing | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swearing | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Swami | det |
| 10 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 vanished | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shocked | punct |
| 12 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Swami | amod |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 14 measure | case |
| 14 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shocked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Swami | punct |
| 16 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 air | amod |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vanished | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past · progressive | Pauk Wales | horribly property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past | the Swami | thin air | 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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