Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 102
This state of things endured for several hundred years until one day King Rama’s foot touched by accident the stone that had been Ahalya.
Who acts: stone · What happens: endure, touch, be · To what, where: things, day foot, Ahalya, state
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 (stone), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 state | nmod |
| 5 | endured | endure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 things | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 endured | obl |
| 10 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | compound |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 endured | obl |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 foot | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 accident | case |
| 19 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ahalya | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 Ahalya | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Ahalya | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 Ahalya | cop |
| 25 | Ahalya | Ahalya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 accident | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure | participle | things not said here | until King's day foot; year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | participle | King's day foot not said here | by accident | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | the stone | Ahalya | that nsubj | 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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