Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 22
Into it the four friends stepped and rowed for Sheikh Jalal’s island.
Who acts: four friends · What happens: step, row · To what, where: water
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 (four friends), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stepped | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friends | det |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 friends | nummod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stepped | nsubj |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rowed | cc |
| 8 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stepped | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 10 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jalal | compound |
| 11 | Jalal | Jalal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 island | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Jalal | case |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rowed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the four friends | water | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | row | past | the four friends not said here | for Sheikh Jalal's island | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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