Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 13
From his earliest years, so it is said, the boy shewed a great leaning towards things spiritual.
Who acts: boy · What happens: say, shew, lean · To what, where: friend, great spiritual · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 years | nmod:poss |
| 3 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux:pass |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shewed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shewed | nsubj |
| 13 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spiritual | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spiritual | amod |
| 16 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 spiritual | csubj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 things | case |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leaning | obl |
| 19 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shewed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | friend | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shew | past | the boy | a great spiritual | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | towards things | vn assuming_position-50 «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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