Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 75
In a little time the Brahman came and tried to fasten the ring in the young bull’s nose.
Who acts: Brahman · What happens: come, try, fasten · To what, where: ring, nose
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 (Brahman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Brahman | det |
| 6 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fasten | mark |
| 11 | fasten | fasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ring | det |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fasten | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 nose | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bull | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bull | amod |
| 17 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nose | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 bull | case |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fasten | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Brahman | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the Brahman not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fasten not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Brahman not said here | the ring | the young bull's nose | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
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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