Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 43
They had hoped to find the fire-trench burning low at night.
Who acts: fire trench · What happens: hope, find, burn · To what, where: swords, fire trench
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 (fire trench), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hoped | aux |
| 3 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hoped | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trench | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trench | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fire | punct |
| 9 | trench | trench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 10 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 trench | acl |
| 11 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 burning | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burning | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past · perfect · passive | swords = sword | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the fire trench | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trench=Topic | |||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | the fire trench not said here | night | low property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP 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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