Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 37
For a long time the Swami could not be found, but with the aid of the townspeople, he was eventually traced to a spot outside Sukkur, where he was quietly singing to himself.
Who acts: Swami · What happens: not find, trace, sing · To what, where: Swami
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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Swami | det |
| 6 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 found | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 traced | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 traced | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 aid | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 aid | det |
| 15 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 traced | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 townspeople | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 townspeople | det |
| 18 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 aid | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 aid | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 traced | aux:pass |
| 22 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 23 traced | advmod |
| 23 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 found | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 spot | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 spot | det |
| 26 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 traced | obl |
| 27 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 28 Sukkur | case |
| 28 | Sukkur | Sukkur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 spot | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 singing | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 singing | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 singing | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 singing | aux |
| 33 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 34 singing | advmod |
| 34 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 spot | acl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 himself | case |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 singing | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | could · passive | the Swami | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | trace | past · passive | Swami | with the aid of the townspeople; to a spot outside Sukkur; eventually property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | Swami | Swami | quietly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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