Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 100
These articles he meant for the use of the poor of Sehwan only.
Who acts: articles · What happens: mean
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: who acts (articles), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 articles | det |
| 2 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 meant | nsubj |
| 4 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 use | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 use | det |
| 7 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meant | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 poor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poor | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 use | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Sehwan | case |
| 12 | Sehwan | Sehwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 poor | obl |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 poor | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | this articles | for the use of the poor of Sehwan; Brartrahari nsubj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for use=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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