Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 11
To prevent the Ganges destroying the earth, the God Shiva caught her in his hair as she fell and kept her there for a whole year.
Who acts: Ganges, God Shiva · What happens: prevent, destroy, catch, fall, keep · To what, where: Ganges, earth, hair
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 (Ganges, God Shiva), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 prevent | mark |
| 2 | prevent | prevent | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ganges | det |
| 4 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 prevent | obj |
| 5 | destroying | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Ganges | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destroying | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Shiva | det |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Shiva | compound |
| 11 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | nsubj |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ganges | acl:relcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hair | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 fell | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kept | cc |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fell | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kept | obj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 kept | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 year | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 year | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 year | amod |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | to-infinitive | the Ganges | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ganges=Theme | |||||
| 2 | destroy | gerund | the Ganges not said here | the earth | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | the God Shiva | Ganges | Shiva's hair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | fall | past | Ganges | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | keep | past | Ganges not said here | Ganges | there | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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