Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 104

In disgust the dead saint bade the streams dry up and all that now remains of them is a group of stones that look exactly like petrified sugar molasses and milk.

Who acts: streams, that, remains, stones · What happens: dry up, remains, be, look, petrify · To what, where: dead saint bade, group

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 (streams, that, remains, stones), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 disgust	case
2	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bade	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bade	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bade	amod
5	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bade	compound
6	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 streams	det
8	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dry	nsubj
9	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bade	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 dry	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 group	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 remains	det:predet
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 remains	nsubj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 remains	advmod
15	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 group	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remains	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 group	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 group	det
20	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dry	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 stones	case
22	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 group	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 look	nsubj
24	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 stones	acl:relcl
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	24 look	advmod
26	like	like	ADP	_	29 molasses	case
27	petrified	petrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 molasses	amod
28	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 molasses	compound
29	molasses	molass	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 look	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 milk	cc
31	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 molasses	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	present	the streams	the dead saint bade in disgust not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bade=Result
2	remains		that		now	of remains	tree rules
3	is a	present	all remains	a group		of stones	tree rules
4	look	present	stones			like petrified sugar molasses and milk; exactly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	petrify	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 104

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 104