Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 32
As they drew near the island, Lal Shahbaz saw Sheikh Jalal looking at them through a window of his castle.
Who acts: boats, Lal, Sheikh · What happens: draw, see, look · To what, where: island, Sheikh, window
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 (boats, Lal, Sheikh), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 8 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lal | flat |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | Jalal | Jalal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sheikh | flat |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 castle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 window | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | boats = boat | the island | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Lal | Sheikh | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Sheikh not said here | a window of Sheikh's castle | at boats = boat | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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