Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 42
She began to scream that Sheikh Farid Shakar Ganj had tried to outrage her.
Who acts: wife · What happens: begin, scream, try, outrage · To what, where: Sheikh Farid, wife
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 (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 scream | mark |
| 4 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 tried | mark |
| 6 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Farid | compound |
| 7 | Farid | Farid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | Shakar | Shakar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Farid | flat |
| 9 | Ganj | Ganj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Farid | flat |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tried | aux |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 scream | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 outrage | mark |
| 13 | outrage | outrage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 outrage | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | wife | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | try | past · perfect · passive | Sheikh Farid | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | outrage not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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