Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 43
Rama agreed but before he went, he drew with his finger two long lines which together formed a sort of enclosure.
Who acts: Rama, Sita · What happens: agree, go, draw, form, sort · To what, where: two long lines, enclosure
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 (Rama, Sita), 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 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 drew | cc |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 went | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drew | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drew | nsubj |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 finger | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 finger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obl |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 lines | nummod |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lines | amod |
| 15 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drew | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 formed | obj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 formed | advmod |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lines | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sort | det |
| 20 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 enclosure | case |
| 22 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sort | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Rama | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Sita | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | Sita | two long lines | with Sita's finger | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | |||
| 4 | form | past | two long lines | a sort of enclosure obj; together property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sort | enclosure | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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