Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 4
Bones of dead men, who died a hundred leagues away are brought almost daily to be thrown into its waters.
Who acts: dead men · What happens: die, bring, throw · To what, where: Bones, waters
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 (dead men), 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 | Bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 men | case |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bones | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 men | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 leagues | nummod |
| 10 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 away | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 died | advmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux:pass |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 daily | advmod |
| 15 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 13 brought | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 thrown | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thrown | aux:pass |
| 18 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 brought | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 waters | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 waters | nmod:poss |
| 21 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thrown | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | dead men | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · passive | Bones of dead men | daily property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | to-infinitive · passive | into part's waters result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into water=Result |
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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