Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 37
There they built themselves a hermitage and there Rama performed the funeral ceremonies of his father, when the latter died of grief at the loss of his son.
Who acts: words, Rama, latter · What happens: build, perform, die · To what, where: words, funeral ceremonies, loss
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 (words, Rama, latter), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 built | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 built | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hermitage | det |
| 6 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 performed | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 performed | expl |
| 9 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 performed | nsubj |
| 10 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ceremonies | det |
| 12 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ceremonies | compound |
| 13 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 performed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 father | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ceremonies | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 died | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 latter | det |
| 20 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 died | nsubj |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ceremonies | acl:relcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 grief | case |
| 23 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 died | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 loss | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 loss | det |
| 26 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 died | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 son | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loss | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | words = word | words = word | there | a hermitage obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary hermitage=Product | ||
| 2 | perform | past | Rama | the funeral ceremonies of Bharata's father | there | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme | |||
| 3 | die | past | the latter | the loss of Bharata's son | of grief | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |
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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