Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 14
Not for him the scent of the old Kumbar Road, or the myriad bird life of the Munchar Lake.
What happens: scent · To what, where: scent, old Kumbar Road
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: 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 | 5 scent | 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 | 5 scent | det |
| 5 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Road | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Road | amod |
| 9 | Kumbar | Kumbar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | compound |
| 10 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scent | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 life | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 life | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 14 | myriad | myriad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bird | compound |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 life | compound |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Lake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lake | det |
| 19 | Munchar | Munchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lake | compound |
| 20 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 life | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | scent | the old Kumbar Road the bird life of the Munchar Lake | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=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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