Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 10
Once upon a time the river Ganges was brought down from heaven by the austerities of King Bhagiratha of Ayodhya, so that he might perform the funeral rites of his kinsmen, the sixty thousand sons of King Sagar.
Who acts: austerities, Godavari · What happens: bring down, perform · To what, where: river, heaven, funeral rites
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 (austerities, Godavari), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 brought | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 river | appos |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 brought | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 heaven | case |
| 12 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 austerities | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 austerities | det |
| 15 | austerities | austerity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Bhagiratha | case |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bhagiratha | compound |
| 18 | Bhagiratha | Bhagiratha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 austerities | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ayodhya | case |
| 20 | Ayodhya | Ayodhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bhagiratha | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perform | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 perform | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 perform | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 perform | aux |
| 26 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 brought | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rites | det |
| 28 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rites | compound |
| 29 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 perform | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 kinsmen | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 32 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rites | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sons | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sons | det |
| 35 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 thousand | compound |
| 36 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 sons | nummod |
| 37 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 kinsmen | appos |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Sagar | case |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Sagar | compound |
| 40 | Sagar | Sagar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 sons | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring down | past · passive | the austerities of King Bhagiratha of Ayodhya | the river | heaven | time | once property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from heaven=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | perform | might | Godavari | the funeral rites of Godavari's kinsmen | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=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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