Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 44
Lal Shahbaz heard of it and took immediate steps to rescue his innocent friend.
Who acts: Lal · What happens: hear, take, rescue · To what, where: immediate steps, innocent friend
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 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lal | flat |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 8 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steps | amod |
| 9 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rescue | mark |
| 11 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friend | amod |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rescue | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Lal | of execution | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Lal not said here | immediate steps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rescue | to-infinitive | Lal not said here | anchorite's innocent friend | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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