Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 30
The thanks of every patriotic Sindhi will go out to him for thus preserving in the printed page the legends that have grown up around some of the more celebrated figures and remains of ancient Sind.
Who acts: thanks, legends · What happens: go out, preserve, print, grow up · To what, where: Kincaid, legends, printed page, some
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 (thanks, legends), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thanks | det |
| 2 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sindhi | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Sindhi | det |
| 5 | patriotic | patriotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Sindhi | amod |
| 6 | Sindhi | Sindhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanks | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 preserving | mark |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 preserving | advmod |
| 14 | preserving | preserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 go | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 page | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 page | det |
| 17 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 page | amod | |
| 18 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 preserving | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 legends | det |
| 20 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 preserving | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 grown | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 grown | aux |
| 23 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 legends | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 grown | compound:prt |
| 25 | around | around | ADP | _ | 26 some | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 grown | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 figures | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 figures | det |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 celebrated | advmod |
| 30 | celebrated | celebrated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 figures | amod |
| 31 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 some | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 remains | cc |
| 33 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 31 figures | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Sind | case |
| 35 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Sind | amod |
| 36 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 remains | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | future | the thanks of every patriotic Sindhi | Kincaid | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | preserve | gerund | the thanks of every patriotic Sindhi not said here | the legends | the printed page | thus property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 4 | grow up | present · perfect | the legends | some of the celebrated figures and remains of ancient Sind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around some=Location |
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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