Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 16
He first went to Baghdad where he stayed at the court of the monarch Sayad Ali.
Who acts: Hazrat · What happens: go, stay · To what, where: Baghdad, court
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 (Hazrat), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Baghdad | case |
| 5 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 stayed | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stayed | nsubj |
| 8 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stayed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 monarch | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monarch | det |
| 14 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 court | nmod |
| 15 | Sayad | Sayad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 monarch | appos |
| 16 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sayad | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hazrat | Baghdad | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to baghdad=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stay | past | Hazrat | the court of the monarch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
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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