Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 50
At noon the body of the Swami rose out of the Indus and the merchant put the necklace round its neck.
Who acts: body, merchant · What happens: rise, put · To what, where: Indus, necklace
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 (body, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 noon | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Swami | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Swami | det |
| 7 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 body | nmod |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 Indus | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Indus | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Indus | det |
| 12 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 necklace | det |
| 18 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the body of the Swami | the Indus | noon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out indus=Location | |||
| 2 | put | past | the merchant | the necklace | round body's neck | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent necklace=Goal |
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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