Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 17
Ganpati turned himself into a cow and wandering towards Gautama’s rice field began shamelessly to eat the holy man’s scanty crop.
Who acts: Ganpati, cow, rice field · What happens: turn, wonder, begin, eat · To what, where: Ganpati, scanty crop
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 (Ganpati, cow, rice field), 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 | Ganpati | Ganpati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 turned | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 cow | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cow | det |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wandering | cc |
| 8 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cow | acl |
| 9 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 14 began | mark |
| 10 | Gautama | Gautama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 field | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Gautama | case |
| 12 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 field | compound |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wandering | advcl |
| 15 | shamelessly | shamelessly | ADV | _ | 14 began | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crop | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 man | case |
| 22 | scanty | scanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crop | compound |
| 23 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Ganpati | Ganpati | into a cow result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into cow=Result | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | a cow not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | Gautama's rice field | shamelessly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | Gautama's rice field not said here | the holy man's scanty crop | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |
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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