Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 1
The Nasik golf course with its many traps for the unwary, the club house with its friendly welcome, the dak bungalow embowered in trees are well known to the golf-loving Bombay resident.
Who acts: course · What happens: embower, know, welcome · To what, where: dak bungalow, Nasik golf course
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course), 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 | 4 course | det |
| 2 | Nasik | Nasik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 course | compound |
| 3 | golf | golf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 course | compound |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 known | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 traps | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 traps | nmod:poss |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 traps | amod |
| 8 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 course | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 unwary | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 unwary | det |
| 11 | unwary | unwary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 traps | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | compound |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unwary | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 welcome | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 welcome | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 welcome | amod |
| 19 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bungalow | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bungalow | det |
| 22 | dak | dak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bungalow | compound |
| 23 | bungalow | bungalow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | conj |
| 24 | embowered | embower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 bungalow | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 trees | case |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 embowered | obl:agent |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 known | aux:pass |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 known | advmod |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 resident | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 resident | det |
| 32 | golf | golf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 loving | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 golf | punct |
| 34 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 resident | amod |
| 35 | Bombay | bombay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 resident | compound |
| 36 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 known | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embower | participle | the dak bungalow not said here | trees obl:agent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | the Nasik golf course with course's many traps for the unwary the club house with course's friendly welcome and the dak bungalow | to the loving Bombay resident; well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | welcome | course | nom welcome «state 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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