Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 115
When they lie the sodden leaves on the choking, dripping eaves And the window panes are blurred, then ’tis well to go away!
Who acts: breakers · What happens: lie, drip, blur, ti, go away · To what, where: sodden leaves, choking, dripping eaves
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 (breakers), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 lie | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tis | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 5 | sodden | sodden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leaves | amod |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lie | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 choking | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 choking | det |
| 9 | choking | choking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lie | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dripping | punct |
| 11 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 eaves | amod |
| 12 | eaves | eave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blurred | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 panes | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 panes | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 panes | compound |
| 16 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eaves | conj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 blurred | aux:pass |
| 18 | blurred | blur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lie | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 tis | advmod |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 tis | punct |
| 22 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 tis | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tis | advcl |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 tis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | breakers = breaker | the sodden leaves | the choking | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | drip | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | blur | present · passive | dripping eaves and the window panes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | ti | present | then | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go away | to-infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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