Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 46
They had barely done so, when a rich merchant of Shikarpur came to Sadh Belo with a precious necklace of pearls for Vankhandi, of whose death he was unaware.
Who acts: disciples, rich merchant, merchant · What happens: do, come, be · To what, where: Sadh
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 (disciples, rich merchant, merchant), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 merchant | amod |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Shikarpur | case |
| 12 | Shikarpur | Shikarpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 merchant | nmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Sadh | case |
| 15 | Sadh | Sadh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | Belo | Belo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sadh | flat |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 necklace | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 necklace | det |
| 19 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 necklace | amod |
| 20 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pearls | case |
| 22 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 necklace | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Vankhandi | case |
| 24 | Vankhandi | Vankhandi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 pearls | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 unaware | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 death | nmod:poss |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 unaware | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 unaware | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 unaware | cop |
| 31 | unaware | unaware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 done | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | disciples = disciple | barely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a rich merchant of Shikarpur | Sadh | with a precious necklace of pearls for Vankhandi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sadh=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | merchant | of death; unaware property | tree rules |
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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