Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 30
To humour his queen and at the same time to oblige the rishi, he released a part of the Ganges river at Trimbak and it became the Godavari.
Who acts: Gautama, part · What happens: humour, oblige, release, become · To what, where: queen, rishi, part
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 (Gautama, part), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 humour | mark |
| 2 | humour | humour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 released | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 queen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 humour | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 time | cc |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 oblige | mark |
| 11 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 time | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rishi | det |
| 13 | rishi | rishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 oblige | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 humour | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 released | nsubj |
| 16 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 part | det |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 released | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 21 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 river | compound |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Trimbak | case |
| 24 | Trimbak | Trimbak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 river | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 became | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 became | nsubj |
| 27 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 released | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Godavari | det |
| 29 | Godavari | Godavari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 became | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | humour | to-infinitive | Gautama not said here | Gautama's queen and the same time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oblige | to-infinitive | Gautama not said here | the rishi | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rishi=Patient | ||||
| 3 | release | past | Gautama | a part of the Ganges river at Trimbak | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer part=Source | ||||
| 4 | become | past | part | the Godavari xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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