Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 95
The moon rose two hours earlier than he (for the moon is masculine in India) should have done.
Who acts: moon · What happens: rise, be, do · To what, where: India
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 (moon), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 done | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 masculine | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 masculine | nsubj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 masculine | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 moon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moon | det |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 masculine | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 masculine | cop |
| 14 | masculine | masculine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 done | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 India | case |
| 16 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 masculine | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 masculine | punct |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 rose | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | moon | India | for the moon; masculine property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | should · perfect | the moon not said here | early property | vn act-114-1 «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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