Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 43
If it did not melt, it meant that he had ceased to live.
Who acts: pat, it, Swami · What happens: not melt, mean, cease, live · 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 (pat, it, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 melt | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 melt | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 melt | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 melt | advmod |
| 5 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meant | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 melt | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meant | nsubj |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ceased | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ceased | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ceased | aux |
| 12 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 meant | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 live | mark |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ceased | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not melt a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | pat | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cease | past · perfect | Swami | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | Swami not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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