Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 114
But when Autumn with a sigh in December turns to die, She’s a dark land, a stark land, grim and chill and grey.
Who acts: Autumn · What happens: turn, die
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 (Autumn), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 ’s | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 turns | mark |
| 3 | Autumn | Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sigh | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sigh | det |
| 6 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Autumn | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 December | case |
| 8 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sigh | nmod |
| 9 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ’s | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 die | mark |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 turns | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turns | punct |
| 13 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ’s | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 land | amod |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ’s | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 land | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 land | det |
| 20 | stark | stark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 land | amod |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 land | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grim | punct |
| 23 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 land | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 chill | cc |
| 25 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grim | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 grey | cc |
| 27 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grim | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Autumn with a sigh in December | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | Autumn with a sigh in December not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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