Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 5
On its banks may be seen at any time young Brahmans practising Prayanam or breathing exercise or doing the Achaman rite, that is to say sipping water while repeating the name of some particular deity.
Who acts: young Brahmans, that · What happens: see, practise, breathe, do, be, sip · To what, where: young Brahmans, banks, Prayanam, exercise, Achaman rite, water
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 (young Brahmans, that), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 banks | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 banks | nmod:poss |
| 3 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seen | obl |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obl |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Brahmans | amod |
| 11 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 seen | obj |
| 12 | practising | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Brahmans | acl |
| 13 | Prayanam | Prayanam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 practising | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 breathing | cc |
| 15 | breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 practising | conj |
| 16 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 breathing | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 doing | cc |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 breathing | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rite | det |
| 20 | Achaman | Achaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 rite | compound |
| 21 | rite | rite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 doing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 say | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 say | nsubj:outer |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 say | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 say | mark |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seen | conj |
| 27 | sipping | sip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 say | xcomp |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sipping | obj |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 repeating | mark |
| 30 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 sipping | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 name | det |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 repeating | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 deity | case |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 deity | det |
| 35 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 deity | amod |
| 36 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 name | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | may · passive | young Brahmans | part's banks | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: brahman=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | practise | gerund | young Brahmans not said here | Prayanam | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | young Brahmans not said here | exercise | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exercise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | young Brahmans not said here | the Achaman rite | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | present | that | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sip | gerund | that not said here | water | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 7 | repeat | gerund | that not said here | the name of some particular deity | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | name | some particular deity | nom name «communication 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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