Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 100
He at once ran back to the hermitage and caught Indra in the very act of going off with his wife.
Who acts: Gautama, act · What happens: run back, catch, go off · To what, where: Indra, act
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 (Gautama, act), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 ran | obl |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hermitage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hermitage | det |
| 8 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 caught | cc |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 11 | Indra | Indra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 act | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 act | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 act | advmod |
| 15 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 going | mark |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 act | acl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 going | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | Gautama | to the hermitage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Result | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Gautama not said here | Indra | the act | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indra=Theme | |||
| 3 | go off | gerund | the act not said here | with Gautama's wife | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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