Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 13
Not for him the green grain fields and shady forests that fringe the great river between Larkana and the late Capital.
Who acts: shady forests · What happens: fringe · To what, where: great river, green grain fields
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 (shady forests), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fields | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Not | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fields | amod |
| 6 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fields | compound |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forests | cc |
| 9 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forests | amod |
| 10 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fields | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 fringe | nsubj |
| 12 | fringe | fringe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 forests | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 river | amod |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fringe | obj |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 Larkana | case |
| 17 | Larkana | Larkana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 river | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Capital | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Capital | det |
| 20 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Capital | amod |
| 21 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Larkana | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fields | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fringe | present | shady forests | the great river | between Larkana and the late Capital | tree rules |
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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