Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 31
The neighbours of Gautama sowed their crops, the Ganges having lost the fairest portion of her waters lost half her beauty and Parvati ceased to be jealous.
Who acts: neighbours, fairest portion, Parvati · What happens: sow, have, lose, cease, be · To what, where: crops, beauty
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 (neighbours, fairest portion, Parvati), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 neighbours | det |
| 2 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sowed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gautama | case |
| 4 | Gautama | Gautama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 neighbours | nmod |
| 5 | sowed | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 crops | nmod:poss |
| 7 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sowed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ganges | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ganges | det |
| 10 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 crops | nmod |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sowed | advcl |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lost | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 portion | det |
| 14 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 portion | amod |
| 15 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 waters | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 waters | nmod:poss |
| 18 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 portion | nmod |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 having | ccomp |
| 20 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 22 beauty | det:predet |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ceased | cc |
| 24 | Parvati | Parvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ceased | nsubj |
| 25 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 beauty | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 jealous | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 jealous | cop |
| 28 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ceased | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sow | past | the neighbours of Gautama | neighbours's crops the Ganges | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crop=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | the neighbours of Gautama not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose | participle | the fairest portion of portion's waters not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | the fairest portion of portion's waters | portion's beauty | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | cease | past | Parvati | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | Parvati not said here | jealous property | 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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