Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 1
Sehwan is known to Englishmen chiefly as a handy station for those who wish to shoot on the Manchar lake.
What happens: know, wish, shoot · To what, where: Sehwan, Englishmen, Manchar lake
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. 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 | Sehwan | Sehwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Englishmen | case |
| 5 | Englishmen | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 known | obl |
| 6 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 3 known | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 station | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 station | det |
| 9 | handy | handy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 station | amod |
| 10 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 known | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 shoot | mark |
| 16 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wish | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 lake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lake | det |
| 19 | Manchar | Manchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | compound |
| 20 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoot | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | Sehwan | Englishmen | as a handy station; for those; chiefly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as station=Attribute | |||
| 2 | wish | present | who nsubj | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Manchar lake | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on lake=Destination |
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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