Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 29
Mr. Kincaid has well caught the spirit of the stories, and his transcriptions are in his happiest style.
Who acts: transcriptions, Kincaid · What happens: catch, be, transcribe · To what, where: Kincaid, happiest style
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 (transcriptions, Kincaid), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kincaid | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Kincaid | Kincaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 caught | advmod |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stories | det |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spirit | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 style | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 style | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 transcriptions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | transcriptions | transcription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 style | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 style | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 style | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 style | nmod:poss |
| 18 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 style | amod |
| 19 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · perfect · passive | Kincaid Mr. | the spirit of the stories obj; well property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary spirit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Kincaid's transcriptions | Kincaid's happiest style | Kincaid nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | transcribe | Kincaid | nom transcription «communication 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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