Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 32
Having brought the Godavari to Nasik let us next consider why Nasik rather than other spots along the river bank is so holy.
Who acts: Nasik, us · What happens: have, bring, let, consider, be · To what, where: Godavari, us
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 (Nasik, us), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 brought | reparandum |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Godavari | det |
| 4 | Godavari | Godavari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 let | case |
| 6 | Nasik | Nasik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 let | nsubj |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | next | next | ADV | _ | 10 consider | advmod |
| 10 | consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 holy | advmod |
| 12 | Nasik | Nasik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 holy | nsubj |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 spots | cc |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 rather | fixed |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spots | amod |
| 16 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Nasik | conj |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 bank | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bank | det |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bank | compound |
| 20 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spots | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 holy | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 holy | advmod |
| 23 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 consider | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past | the Godavari | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument godavari=Destination | |||||
| 3 | let | past | Nasik | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | consider | present | us not said here | next property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Nasik rather other spots along the river bank | holy 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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