Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 89
At a little distance from the river is a pool known as Indra’s pool.
What happens: be, know · To what, where: pool
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 distance | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 distance | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distance | amod |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pool | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distance | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pool | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pool | det |
| 10 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pool | acl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 pool | case |
| 13 | Indra | Indra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pool | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Indra | case |
| 15 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 known | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a pool | at a little distance from the river | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | a pool not said here | as Indra's pool | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as pool=Attribute |
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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