Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 9
Be the fact good or bad for the Province, fact it is.
Who acts: fact · What happens: be · To what, where: fact
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 (fact), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fact | det |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | nsubj |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 bad | cc |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Province | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Province | det |
| 9 | Province | Province | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bad | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fact | punct |
| 11 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 is | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fact | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | the fact | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the fact not said here | for the Province | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | present | fact | fact not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fact=Theme |
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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