Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 37
As they were returning from the blessed vision of the prophet’s tomb, they halted one night in a town on the coast of Arabia.
Who acts: Lal · What happens: return, halt · To what, where: blessed vision, town
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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 returning | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returning | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returning | aux |
| 4 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 halted | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 vision | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vision | det |
| 7 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vision | amod |
| 8 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returning | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tomb | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prophet | det |
| 11 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 prophet | case |
| 13 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vision | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returning | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 halted | nsubj |
| 16 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 night | nummod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 halted | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 halted | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 coast | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 coast | det |
| 24 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 town | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Arabia | case |
| 26 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 coast | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · progressive | Lal | the blessed vision of the prophet's tomb | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from vision=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | halt | past | Lal | a town on the coast of Arabia | night | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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