Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 48
On the second night the Swami in a dream promised that he would appear before his devoted follower the next day.
Who acts: Swami · What happens: promise, appear · To what, where: devoted follower · 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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 promised | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Swami | det |
| 6 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 promised | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dream | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dream | det |
| 9 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Swami | nmod |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 appear | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appear | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 appear | aux |
| 14 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | ccomp |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 follower | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 follower | nmod:poss |
| 17 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 follower | amod |
| 18 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appear | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 day | amod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appear | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the Swami in a dream | night | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | appear | would | Swami | Swami's devoted follower | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before follower=Location |
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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