Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 49
A little before noon the 108 Brahmans began to collect outside Magadha’s house.
Who acts: little noon · What happens: begin, collect
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 (little noon), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 noon | amod |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 noon | case |
| 4 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Brahmans | det |
| 6 | 108 | 108 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Brahmans | nummod |
| 7 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 collect | mark |
| 10 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Magadha | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collect | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | little noon | the 108 Brahmans nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | collect | to-infinitive | little noon not said here | outside Magadha's house | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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