Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 23
About half way the boat stopped dead and no matter how hard the saints plied the oar, it declined to move.
Who acts: boat, hard saints, saint · What happens: stop, ply, decline, not move · To what, where: way, matter
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 (boat, hard saints, saint), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 half | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 way | det:predet |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stopped | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stopped | nsubj |
| 6 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stopped | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 plied | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plied | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 hard | advmod |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 saints | amod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 saints | det |
| 14 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 plied | nsubj |
| 15 | plied | ply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stopped | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oar | det |
| 17 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plied | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 declined | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 declined | nsubj |
| 20 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stopped | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 move | mark |
| 22 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 declined | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the boat | half way | dead property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ply | past | the hard saints | no matter | the oar obj | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent oar=Recipient | |||
| 3 | decline | past | saint | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not move | to-infinitive | saint not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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