Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 6
There too may sometimes be seen the naked anchorite to whom the whole world stands in lieu of a garment; and he is not the least unhappy.
Who acts: whole world, world · What happens: see, stand, not be · To what, where: naked anchorite, lieu
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 (whole world, world), 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 | 6 seen | expl |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 seen | advmod |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 seen | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 anchorite | det |
| 8 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 anchorite | amod |
| 9 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 anchorite | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stands | nsubj |
| 15 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 lieu | case |
| 17 | lieu | lieu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stands | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 garment | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 garment | det |
| 20 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lieu | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 unhappy | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 unhappy | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 unhappy | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 unhappy | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 unhappy | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 unhappy | det |
| 27 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 unhappy | advmod |
| 28 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seen | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | may · passive | the naked anchorite | there | sometimes property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: anchorite=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stand | present | the whole world | lieu of a garment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lieu=Location | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | world | unhappy property | tree rules |
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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