Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 21
No boats were available so Lal Shahbaz threw his “kishta” or begging bowl into the water and it became a boat.
Who acts: boats, Lal, bowl · What happens: be, throw, beg, become · To what, where: kishta, water, boat
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 (boats, Lal, bowl), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 boats | det |
| 2 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 available | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 available | cop |
| 4 | available | available | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 threw | advmod |
| 6 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lal | flat |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 available | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kishta | nmod:poss |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 kishta | punct |
| 11 | kishta | kishta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 begging | cc |
| 14 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 threw | conj |
| 15 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 begging | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 begging | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 threw | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 boat | det |
| 23 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 available | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no boats | available property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Lal | Jalal's kishta | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kishta=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | gerund | bowl | the water | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | become | past | bowl | a boat | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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