Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 29

In the pocket of Sheikh Bahawaldin he found, as I regret to say, a brick of solid gold, which the saint was keeping against a rainy day.

Who acts: Shahbaz, I, solid gold · What happens: find, regret, say, keep · To what, where: pocket, brick · 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, I, solid gold), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 pocket	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pocket	det
3	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Bahawaldin	case
5	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bahawaldin	compound
6	Bahawaldin	Bahawaldin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pocket	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 regret	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 regret	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 regret	nsubj
12	regret	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 found	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 regret	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brick	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 brick	det
17	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
19	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gold	amod
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brick	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 keeping	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 keeping	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 saint	det
24	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keeping	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 keeping	aux
26	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 gold	acl
27	against	against	ADP	_	30 day	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 day	det
29	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keeping	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Shahbaz		the pocket of Sheikh Bahawaldin			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	regret	present	I					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	a brick of solid gold				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brick=Topic
4	keep	past · progressive	solid gold			day	the saint nsubj	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 29

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Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 29