Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 23
Though the vagaries of the Indus and the severity of the hot season in the interior combine quickly to obliterate man’s puny strivings for permanency, material evidence exists in many places of the great vitality and culture of those who have lived before us in this ancient land of Sind.
Who acts: vagaries, material evidence, great vitality, man · What happens: obliterate, exist, live, strive · To what, where: puny strivings, many places, ancient land
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 (vagaries, material evidence, great vitality, man), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 obliterate | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vagaries | det |
| 3 | vagaries | vagary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 obliterate | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Indus | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Indus | det |
| 6 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 vagaries | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 severity | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 severity | det |
| 9 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Indus | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 season | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 season | det |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 season | amod |
| 13 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 severity | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 combine | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 combine | det |
| 16 | interior | interior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 combine | amod |
| 17 | combine | combine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 season | nmod |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 20 obliterate | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 obliterate | mark |
| 20 | obliterate | obliterate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strivings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 man | case |
| 23 | puny | puny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 strivings | amod |
| 24 | strivings | striving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 obliterate | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 permanency | case |
| 26 | permanency | permanency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obliterate | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 exists | punct |
| 28 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 evidence | compound |
| 29 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 exists | nsubj |
| 30 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 obliterate | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 places | case |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 places | amod |
| 33 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 exists | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 vitality | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 vitality | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 vitality | amod |
| 37 | vitality | vitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 places | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 culture | cc |
| 39 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 vitality | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 those | case |
| 41 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 culture | nmod |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 lived | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 lived | aux |
| 44 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 vitality | acl:relcl |
| 45 | before | before | ADP | _ | 46 us | case |
| 46 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 lived | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 land | case |
| 48 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 land | det |
| 49 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 land | amod |
| 50 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lived | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Sind | case |
| 52 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 land | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 obliterate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obliterate | to-infinitive | the vagaries of the Indus and the severity of the hot season in the interior combine | man's puny strivings | for permanency; quickly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent striving=Patient | |||
| 2 | exist | present | material evidence | many places of the great vitality and culture of those | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | live | present · perfect | the great vitality and culture of those | this ancient land of Sind | before us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | |||
| 4 | strive | man | nom striving «act intransitive»: 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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