Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 35
That night both Captain Pauk Wales and his wife were seized with internal pains of an agonising description.
What happens: seize, agonise, pain · To what, where: night, agonising description
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: 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Wales | nsubj |
| 4 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wales | compound |
| 5 | Pauk | Pauk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wales | compound |
| 6 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 night | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 night | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | aux:pass |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pains | case |
| 13 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pains | amod |
| 14 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seized | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 description | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 description | det |
| 17 | agonising | agonise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 description | amod |
| 18 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pains | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | that night and Captain Pauk Wales and Wales's wife | with internal pains of a agonising description | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | agonise | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pain | a agonising description | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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