Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 22
We are not dependent, however, simply on historical incidents to stimulate our imaginations.
Who acts: We, our · What happens: not be, stimulate, imagine · To what, where: historical incidents, imaginations
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 (We, our), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dependent | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dependent | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 dependent | advmod |
| 4 | dependent | dependent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 dependent | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 incidents | punct |
| 8 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 11 incidents | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 incidents | case |
| 10 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 incidents | amod |
| 11 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dependent | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stimulate | mark |
| 13 | stimulate | stimulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 incidents | acl |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 imaginations | nmod:poss |
| 15 | imaginations | imagination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stimulate | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dependent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | We | historical incidents | dependent, however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stimulate | to-infinitive | We not said here | our imaginations | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus imagination=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | imagine | our | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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