Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 6
I am indebted to Mr. Amritlal Chunilal, Vakil of Kapadwanj, for the originals of the Guzarati stories.
What happens: indebt · To what, where: I, Amritlal
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: 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 indebted | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 indebted | aux:pass |
| 3 | indebted | indebt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Amritlal | case |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Amritlal | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Amritlal | Amritlal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 indebted | obl |
| 7 | Chunilal | Chunilal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Amritlal | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Vakil | punct |
| 9 | Vakil | Vakil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Amritlal | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kapadwanj | case |
| 11 | Kapadwanj | Kapadwanj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Vakil | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 originals | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 originals | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 originals | det |
| 15 | originals | original | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 indebted | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stories | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stories | det |
| 18 | Guzarati | Guzarati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 stories | compound |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 originals | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 indebted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indebt | present · passive | I | Amritlal Mr. and Vakil of Kapadwanj | the originals of the Guzarati stories conj | 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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