Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 3
The bare rocks of Lakhi known as the Bagothoro are said to end the last struggles of the monsoon.
Who acts: monsoon · What happens: know, say, end, struggle · To what, where: bare rocks, last struggles · 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 (monsoon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rocks | det |
| 2 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rocks | amod |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Lakhi | case |
| 5 | Lakhi | Lakhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rocks | nmod |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rocks | acl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Bagothoro | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bagothoro | det |
| 9 | Bagothoro | Bagothoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 known | obl |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux:pass |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 end | mark |
| 13 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 struggles | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 struggles | amod |
| 16 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 end | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 monsoon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 monsoon | det |
| 19 | monsoon | monsoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 struggles | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | the bare rocks of Lakhi not said here | as the Bagothoro | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as bagothoro=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the bare rocks of Lakhi | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | end | to-infinitive | the last struggles of the monsoon | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality struggle=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | struggle | the monsoon | nom struggle «act intransitive»: of=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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