Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 80
The tip of its tail, however, which it had held high in the air to shew its defiant spirit, remained black.
What happens: hold, shew, remain · To what, where: tip, air, defiant spirit
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: 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 tip | det |
| 2 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tail | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tip | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tip | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 held | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 held | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 held | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 held | aux |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 held | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 shew | mark |
| 18 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 held | advcl |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 20 | defiant | defiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spirit | amod |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shew | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remained | punct |
| 23 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 held | conj |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 remained | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · perfect · passive | the tip of beast's tail | the air | which nsubj:pass; beast nsubj:pass; high, however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in air=Location | |||
| 2 | shew | to-infinitive | beast's defiant spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | remain | participle | black property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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