Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 17
Further, nobody who has lived long in Sind, can have failed to be affected not only by its beauties, but by the atmosphere of romance that pervades the whole Province.
Who acts: nobody, beauties, atmosphere · What happens: live, fail, not affect, pervade · To what, where: Sind, whole Province
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 (nobody, beauties, atmosphere), 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 | Further | further | ADV | _ | 13 failed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Further | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | aux |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 nobody | acl:relcl |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Sind | case |
| 9 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nobody | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 failed | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 failed | aux |
| 13 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 affected | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 affected | aux:pass |
| 16 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 failed | xcomp |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 beauties | advmod |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 beauties | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 beauties | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beauties | nmod:poss |
| 21 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 affected | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 atmosphere | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 atmosphere | cc |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 atmosphere | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 atmosphere | det |
| 26 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 failed | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 romance | case |
| 28 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 atmosphere | nmod |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 pervades | nsubj |
| 30 | pervades | pervade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 atmosphere | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Province | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Province | amod |
| 33 | Province | Province | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 pervades | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · perfect | Sind | who nsubj; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sind=Location | ||||
| 2 | fail | can · perfect | nobody | the atmosphere of romance parataxis; further property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not affect | to-infinitive · passive | Sindhi's beauties | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | pervade | present | the atmosphere of romance | the whole Province | 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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