Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 78
However, it did not mind a bit, but galloping off with its tail in the air, plunged into the pool where Rama had performed the obsequies to his dead father.
Who acts: beast, galloping, Rama · What happens: not mind, gallop off, plunge, perform · To what, where: bit, air, pool, obsequies
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 (beast, galloping, Rama), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 mind | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 mind | advmod |
| 6 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mind | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 plunged | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 plunged | cc |
| 11 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 plunged | csubj:pass |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 galloping | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 tail | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 galloping | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 galloping | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 plunged | punct |
| 20 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mind | advcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 pool | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pool | det |
| 23 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plunged | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 performed | advmod |
| 25 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 performed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 performed | aux |
| 27 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 pool | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 obsequies | det |
| 29 | obsequies | obsequy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 performed | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 father | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 father | amod |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 performed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | past · do-support | beast | a bit | however property | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | gallop off | gerund | the air | with beast's tail | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | plunge | participle | galloping | the pool | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pool=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | perform | past · perfect | Rama | the obsequies | to sin's dead father | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obsequy=Theme |
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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