Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 15
It so happened that at this time a rishi of extraordinary powers and merits named Gautama lived near what is now the bed of the Godavari river.
Who acts: It, rishi · What happens: happen, name, live, be · To what, where: extraordinary powers, bed
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 (It, rishi), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lived | mark |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rishi | det |
| 9 | rishi | rishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 powers | case |
| 11 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 powers | amod |
| 12 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rishi | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 merits | cc |
| 14 | merits | merit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 powers | conj |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 powers | acl |
| 16 | Gautama | Gautama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 bed | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bed | cop |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 bed | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bed | det |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 river | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 river | det |
| 26 | Godavari | Godavari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 river | compound |
| 27 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bed | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | name | participle | extraordinary powers and merits not said here | Gautama xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a rishi of extraordinary powers and merits | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the bed | now | of the Godavari river; what nsubj | tree rules |
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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