Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 113
I wander in my dreams by her meadows and her streams— Olden streams, golden streams flowing towards the sea— And I see their tiny billows as they lap against the willows, And the red rose is blowing—Ah! ’tis there I would be.
Who acts: I, golden streams, billows, red rose, meadows, streams · What happens: wander, flow, see, lap, blow, dream · To what, where: dreams, tiny billows, tis, my
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 (I, golden streams, billows, red rose), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wander | nsubj |
| 2 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dreams | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wander | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 meadows | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 meadows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dreams | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 streams | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 streams | nmod:poss |
| 11 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meadows | conj |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 streams | punct |
| 13 | Olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 streams | amod |
| 14 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meadows | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 streams | punct |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 streams | amod |
| 17 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meadows | conj |
| 18 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 streams | acl |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flowing | obl |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wander | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 billows | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 billows | amod |
| 28 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 see | obj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 lap | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 lap | nsubj |
| 31 | lap | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | advcl |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 34 willows | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 willows | det |
| 34 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lap | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 blowing | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 blowing | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rose | det |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 rose | amod |
| 39 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 blowing | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 blowing | aux |
| 41 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wander | advcl |
| 42 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Ah | punct |
| 43 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 41 blowing | discourse |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 Ah | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 blowing | punct |
| 46 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 blowing | obj |
| 47 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 tis | advmod |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 be | nsubj |
| 49 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 be | aux |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 tis | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wander | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | present | I | my dreams by England's meadows and England's streams and Olden streams and golden streams | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | golden streams not said here | towards the sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | present | I | streams's tiny billows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer billow=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lap | present | billows = billow | against the willows | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | blow | present · progressive | the red rose | tis | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tis=Patient | ||||
| 6 | dream | England's meadows and England's streams and Olden streams and golden streams | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=patient by=agent | |||||
| 7 | billow | streams = stream | nom billow «event intransitive»: 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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