Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 49
Fortified by the vision, the Shikarpur merchant sat on by the edge of the stream.
Who acts: Shikarpur merchant · What happens: fortify, sit on
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 (Shikarpur 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 | Fortified | fortify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 vision | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vision | det |
| 4 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fortified | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 7 | Shikarpur | Shikarpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 merchant | compound |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fortified | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 edge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 edge | det |
| 13 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stream | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 edge | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fortified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fortify | participle | by the vision | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit on | past | the Shikarpur merchant | by the edge of the stream | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by edge=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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