Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 50
Lastly the Saint changed himself into a peregrine falcon and swooping down picked up Sheikh Farid Shakar Ganj and bore him to a place of safety.
Who acts: Saint · What happens: change, swoop, pick up, bear · To what, where: Hell
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 (Saint), 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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saint | det |
| 3 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 falcon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 falcon | det |
| 8 | peregrine | peregrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 falcon | compound |
| 9 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swooping | cc |
| 11 | swooping | swoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 falcon | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 picked | advmod |
| 13 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 swooping | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 picked | compound:prt |
| 15 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Farid | compound |
| 16 | Farid | Farid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 picked | obl:agent |
| 17 | Shakar | Shakar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Farid | flat |
| 18 | Ganj | Ganj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shakar | flat |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bore | cc |
| 20 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bore | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bore | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 safety | case |
| 26 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the Saint | Hell | into a peregrine falcon result; lastly property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into falcon=Result | |||
| 2 | swoop | gerund | the Saint not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pick up | participle | the Saint not said here | Sheikh Farid obl:agent; down property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bear | past | the Saint not said here | Hell | to a place of safety | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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