Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 61
In the middle room was poor Magadha, praying with all her might to the God Krishna to help her.
Who acts: middle room, God · What happens: be, pray, help · To what, where: poor Magadha, Magadha
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 (middle room, God), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 Magadha | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Magadha | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Magadha | cop |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Magadha | amod |
| 7 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Magadha | punct |
| 9 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 God | csubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 her | det:predet |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 praying | obl |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 God | aux |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 God | det |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | Krishna | Krishna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 God | flat |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the middle room | poor Magadha | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pray | gerund | with Magadha | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | the God | Magadha | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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