Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 1
Most of the articles collected in this little book have appeared in the “Daily Gazette” or the “Times of India.”
Who acts: Most · What happens: collect, appear · To what, where: Daily Gazette, little book
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 collected | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 articles | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 articles | det |
| 4 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 book | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 book | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 book | amod |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | obl |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 appeared | aux |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 collected | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Gazette | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gazette | det |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Gazette | punct |
| 15 | Daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Gazette | amod |
| 16 | Gazette | gazette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | xcomp |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Gazette | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 Times | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Times | det |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Times | punct |
| 21 | Times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Gazette | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 India | case |
| 23 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Times | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 collected | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | Most of the articles | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | appear | present · perfect | Most of the articles not said here | the Daily Gazette the Times of India | this little book | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=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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