Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 64
At last he came to the banks of the Godavari and sat down to rest under a tree.
Who acts: Shiva · What happens: come, sit down, rest · To what, where: last, tree
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 banks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 banks | det |
| 7 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Godavari | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Godavari | det |
| 10 | Godavari | Godavari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 banks | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rest | mark |
| 15 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sat | advcl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rest | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Shiva | last | to the banks of the Godavari | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | Shiva not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | Shiva not said here | a tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |
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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