Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 18
But the religious call was too insistent and with three friends, Sheikh Bahawaldin, Sheikh Farid Ganj Shakar and Makhdum Jalaluddin, Lal Shahbaz set off for the Persian Gulf.
Who acts: religious call, Sheikh Bahawaldin · What happens: be, set off · To what, where: three friends
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 (religious call, Sheikh Bahawaldin), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 insistent | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 call | det |
| 3 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 call | amod |
| 4 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 insistent | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 insistent | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 insistent | advmod |
| 7 | insistent | insistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 friends | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 friends | nummod |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 insistent | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bahawaldin | punct |
| 13 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bahawaldin | compound |
| 14 | Bahawaldin | Bahawaldin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 set | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Farid | punct |
| 16 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Farid | compound |
| 17 | Farid | Farid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bahawaldin | conj |
| 18 | Ganj | Ganj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Farid | flat |
| 19 | Shakar | Shakar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Farid | flat |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Makhdum | cc |
| 21 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bahawaldin | conj |
| 22 | Jalaluddin | Jalaluddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Makhdum | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Lal | punct |
| 24 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bahawaldin | conj |
| 25 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Lal | flat |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 friends | acl:relcl |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 set | compound:prt |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Gulf | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Gulf | det |
| 30 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Gulf | compound |
| 31 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 set | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 insistent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the religious call | three friends conj; insistent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set off | past | Sheikh Bahawaldin and Sheikh Farid and Makhdum and Lal | three friends not said here | for the Persian Gulf | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition friend=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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