Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 119
And the great seas will roar on the gleaming Arab shore, (White rocks, bright rocks smile at her from me!)
Who acts: great seas, bright rocks · What happens: roar, gleam, smile · To what, where: gleaming Arab shore, sea
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 (great seas, bright rocks), 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 | _ | 6 roar | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seas | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seas | amod |
| 4 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 roar | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 roar | aux |
| 6 | roar | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 9 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 shore | amod |
| 10 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shore | amod |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roar | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rocks | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 rocks | punct |
| 14 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rocks | amod |
| 15 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 roar | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smile | punct |
| 17 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rocks | amod |
| 18 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 smile | nsubj |
| 19 | smile | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rocks | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 smile | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 smile | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 rocks | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 roar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | future | the great seas | the gleaming Arab shore | White rocks parataxis | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | |||
| 2 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | smile | present | bright rocks | sea | from me | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Topic |
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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