Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 63
The punishment was a very severe one and to rid himself of the horrible vision, Shiva wandered all over India visiting in vain shrine after shrine.
Who acts: punishment, Shiva · What happens: be, rid, wander, visit · To what, where: severe one, Brahmadev, India, vain shrine
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 (punishment, Shiva), 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 punishment | det |
| 2 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 severe | advmod |
| 6 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rid | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rid | mark |
| 10 | rid | rid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 one | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 rid | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 vision | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vision | det |
| 14 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vision | amod |
| 15 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rid | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandered | punct |
| 17 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wandered | nsubj |
| 18 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | conj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 India | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 India | case |
| 21 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wandered | obl |
| 22 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 wandered | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 shrine | case |
| 24 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shrine | amod |
| 25 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 visiting | obl |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 shrine | case |
| 27 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shrine | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the punishment | a severe one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rid | to-infinitive | the punishment not said here | Brahmadev | of the horrible vision | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Source of vision=Theme | |||
| 3 | wander | past | Shiva | India | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | visit | gerund | Shiva not said here | vain shrine after shrine | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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