Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 51

The body then lay on the bank and the merchant called to him the anchorites of the place, who once more consigned reverently the body of the Saint into the whirling waters of the mighty river.

Who acts: body, merchant · What happens: lie, call, consign, whirl · To what, where: bank, anchorites, merchant, whirling waters · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 body	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 merchant	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	conj
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 merchant	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 anchorites	det
15	anchorites	anchorite	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 anchorites	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 consigned	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 consigned	nsubj:pass
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 consigned	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 consigned	advmod
23	consigned	consign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 anchorites	acl
24	reverently	reverently	ADV	_	23 consigned	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 body	det
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 consigned	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Saint	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Saint	det
29	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 body	nmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 waters	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 waters	det
32	whirling	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 waters	amod
33	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 consigned	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 river	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 river	det
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 river	amod
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waters	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the body			the bank	then	the merchant conj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	call	participle	the merchant not said here	the anchorites of the place	merchant				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	consign	participle · passive		the anchorites of the place		the whirling waters of the mighty river		the body of the Saint obj; once, reverently property	tree rules
4	whirl	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 51