Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 60
He opened his third eye and with it burnt up the sun, the earth and last but not least Brahmadev’s fifth head.
Who acts: story, Brahmadev · What happens: open, burnt up, head · To what, where: third eye, fun
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 (story, Brahmadev), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eye | nmod:poss |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 eye | amod |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 burnt | cc |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 burnt | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 opened | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 burnt | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burnt | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 earth | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sun | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 last | cc |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 burnt | conj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 head | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 least | advmod |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 Brahmadev | nmod |
| 21 | Brahmadev | Brahmadev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 head | nsubj |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Brahmadev | case |
| 23 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 head | amod |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burnt | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | story | story's third eye | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burnt up | participle · passive | fun | the sun and the earth obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | head | Brahmadev least | 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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