Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 53
The unsuspecting Sita unwilling to enrage the holy man went towards him, crossed the southern line and handed Ravana the alms.
Who acts: Sita · What happens: unsuspect, unwill, enrage, go, cross, hand · To what, where: holy man, southern line, alms, Ravana
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 unsuspecting | det |
| 2 | unsuspecting | unsuspect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 3 | Sita | Sita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 4 | unwilling | unwill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Sita | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 enrage | mark |
| 6 | enrage | enrage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unwilling | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enrage | obj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crossed | punct |
| 14 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 16 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 line | amod |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crossed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 handed | cc |
| 19 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 20 | Ravana | Ravana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 handed | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 alms | det |
| 22 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 handed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unsuspect | gerund | Sita not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | unwill | gerund | Sita not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | enrage | to-infinitive | Sita not said here | the holy man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Sita | towards favour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | cross | past | Sita not said here | the southern line | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hand | past | Sita not said here | the alms | Ravana | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ravana=Destination alm=Theme |
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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