Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 15
Not for him the moonlight on the great desert on our Eastern frontier; or the sunrise from the Indus delta, throwing its golden shafts across Karachi’s beautiful lagoon to the rugged sky-line of the Hub hills.
Who acts: sunrise · What happens: throw · To what, where: golden shafts, beautiful lagoon, moonlight
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 (sunrise), 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 moonlight | 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 moonlight | det |
| 5 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 desert | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 desert | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desert | amod |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moonlight | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 frontier | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 frontier | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 frontier | amod |
| 13 | frontier | frontier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 desert | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sunrise | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sunrise | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sunrise | det |
| 17 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moonlight | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 delta | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 delta | det |
| 20 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 delta | compound |
| 21 | delta | Delta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sunrise | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 throwing | punct |
| 23 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sunrise | acl |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shafts | nmod:poss |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shafts | amod |
| 26 | shafts | shaft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 throwing | obj |
| 27 | across | across | ADP | _ | 31 lagoon | case |
| 28 | Karachi | Karachi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 lagoon | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Karachi | case |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lagoon | amod |
| 31 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throwing | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 line | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 line | det |
| 34 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 line | amod |
| 35 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 line | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 sky | punct |
| 37 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throwing | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 hills | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 hills | det |
| 40 | Hub | Hub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 hills | compound |
| 41 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 line | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moonlight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | the sunrise from the Indus delta not said here | delta's golden shafts | Karachi's beautiful lagoon | to the rugged sky line of the Hub hills | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme to line=Destination |
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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