Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 24
At last Lal Shahbaz realised that the island fakir had cast a spell on them.
Who acts: Shahbaz · What happens: realise, cast · To what, where: last Lal, island fakir · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Shahbaz), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Lal | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lal | amod |
| 3 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 realised | obl |
| 4 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 realised | nsubj |
| 5 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 cast | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fakir | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fakir | compound |
| 9 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cast | aux |
| 11 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 realised | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 spell | det |
| 13 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cast | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cast | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 realised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise | past | Shahbaz | last Lal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cast | past · perfect · passive | the island fakir | on Lal; a spell obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary spell=Product |
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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