Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 5
He had two sons named Deval and Madhav.
Who acts: Brahman · What happens: have, name · To what, where: two sons
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 (Brahman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sons | nummod |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sons | acl |
| 6 | Deval | Deval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Madhav | cc |
| 8 | Madhav | Madhav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Deval | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Brahman | two sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | two sons not said here | Deval and Madhav xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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