Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 118

And the white clouds above, they will greet my ladylove, And the blue skies will laugh as she speeds across the main.

Who acts: white clouds, blue skies, sky · What happens: greet, laugh, speed · To what, where: ladylove, main

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 (white clouds, blue skies, sky), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 greet	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clouds	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clouds	amod
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 greet	nsubj
5	above	above	ADV	_	4 clouds	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clouds	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 greet	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 greet	aux
9	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ladylove	nmod:poss
11	ladylove	ladylove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 greet	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 laugh	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skies	det
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 skies	amod
16	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 laugh	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 laugh	aux
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 greet	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 speeds	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 speeds	nsubj
21	speeds	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 laugh	advcl
22	across	across	ADP	_	24 main	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 main	det
24	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 speeds	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 greet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	future	the white clouds	my ladylove		clouds = cloud nsubj	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladylove=Theme
2	laugh	future	the blue skies				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speed	present	sky		the main		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across main=Trajectory

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 118