Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 19
In an island in the Gulf lived a fakir named Sheikh Jalal whose austerities had won him supernatural gifts.
What happens: live, name, win · To what, where: island, fakir
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: 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 | _ | 3 island | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 island | det |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Gulf | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Gulf | det |
| 6 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 island | nmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fakir | det |
| 9 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 won | nsubj |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fakir | acl |
| 11 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Jalal | compound |
| 12 | Jalal | Jalal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 named | xcomp |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 austerities | nmod:poss |
| 14 | austerities | austerity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 won | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 won | aux |
| 16 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lived | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 won | obj |
| 18 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gifts | amod |
| 19 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 won | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a island in the Gulf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | name | participle | a fakir not said here | Sheikh Jalal xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | win | past · perfect · passive | a fakir | austerities nsubj:pass; Jalal obj; supernatural gifts obj | tree rules |
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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