Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 96
Gautama anxious to worship the sun before he rose went to the river bank to bathe.
Who acts: Gautama · What happens: worship, rise, go, bathe · To what, where: sun, river bank
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 (Gautama), 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 | Gautama | gautama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 2 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Gautama | amod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 worship | mark |
| 4 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 anxious | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worship | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 rose | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worship | advcl |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bank | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bank | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bank | compound |
| 14 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bathe | mark |
| 16 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worship | to-infinitive | Gautama not said here | the sun | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | Gautama | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Gautama | the river bank | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bathe | to-infinitive | Gautama not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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