Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 90
The tale told about it is the following: Once upon a time there lived another great rishi also called Gautama.
Who acts: tale · What happens: tell, follow, live, call · To what, where: great rishi · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tale), 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 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 following | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 following | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 following | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 following | det |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Once | punct |
| 10 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 lived | advmod |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lived | advmod |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | advcl |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 rishi | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rishi | amod |
| 18 | rishi | rishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 called | advmod |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 rishi | acl |
| 21 | Gautama | Gautama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | follow | present · progressive | tale | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | past | the tale not said here | another great rishi | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme rishi=Location | |
| 4 | call | participle | another great rishi not said here | Gautama xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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