Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 120
While the trade wind blows, just to fan her as she goes, Till I see her kerchief waving, as I stand upon the quay.
Who acts: trade wind, wind, I, kerchief · What happens: blow, fan, go, see, wave, stand · To what, where: wind, kerchief, quay
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 (trade wind, wind, I, kerchief), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 blows | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 3 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wind | compound |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blows | nsubj |
| 5 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fan | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blows | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 fan | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fan | mark |
| 9 | fan | fan | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fan | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 goes | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fan | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fan | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kerchief | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 kerchief | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stand | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 stand | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 stand | nsubj |
| 24 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | advcl |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 quay | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 quay | det |
| 27 | quay | quay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stand | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | the trade wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fan | to-infinitive | wind | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | present | wind | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | present | I | wind's kerchief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kerchief=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | wave | gerund | wind's kerchief not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | stand | present | I | the quay | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon quay=Location |
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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