Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 81
The God Shiva watched the incident closely and immediately afterwards plunged also into the water.
Who acts: God Shiva · What happens: watch, plunge · To what, where: incident, water
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 (God 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 | 3 Shiva | det |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Shiva | compound |
| 3 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 incident | det |
| 6 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obj |
| 7 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 4 watched | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plunged | cc |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 plunged | advmod |
| 10 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 11 plunged | advmod |
| 11 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 watched | conj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 plunged | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plunged | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the God Shiva | the incident | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme | |||
| 2 | plunge | participle | the God Shiva not said here | the water | afterwards, immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_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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