Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 28
But as the boat still refused to budge, Lal Shahbaz went through their pockets.
Who acts: boat, Lal · What happens: refuse, not budge, go · To what, where: pockets
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, Lal), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 refused | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 refused | nsubj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 refused | advmod |
| 6 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 budge | mark |
| 8 | budge | budge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 refused | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 refused | punct |
| 10 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 11 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lal | flat |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 pockets | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | obl | |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the boat | still | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not budge | to-infinitive | the boat not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Lal | Lal's pockets | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through pocket=Initial_Location |
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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