Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 42
As both could swim, they easily crossed the six water trenches.
Who acts: both, swords · What happens: swim, cross · To what, where: six water trenches
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (both, swords), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 swim | mark |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 swim | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swim | aux |
| 4 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 crossed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swim | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 crossed | nsubj |
| 7 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 8 crossed | advmod |
| 8 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trenches | det |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 trenches | nummod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trenches | compound |
| 12 | trenches | trench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crossed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | could | both | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cross | past | swords = sword | the six water trenches | easily property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trench=Patient |
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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