Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 2
It was a famous town and in it lived very many rich men.
Who acts: town · What happens: be, live · To what, where: famous town, many rich men
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 town | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 town | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 town | amod |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 lived | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 town | conj |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lived | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 town | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | town | a famous town | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | town | many rich men | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=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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