Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 57
He stayed so long at the bottom of the cauldron that his rival owned himself beaten.
Who acts: Murshid, rival · What happens: stay, own, beat · To what, where: bottom, cauldron
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 (Murshid, rival), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cauldron | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cauldron | det |
| 10 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 owned | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rival | nmod:poss |
| 13 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 owned | nsubj |
| 14 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cauldron | acl:relcl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 owned | obj |
| 16 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 owned | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Murshid | the bottom of the cauldron | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location | |||
| 2 | own | past | Murshid's rival | the cauldron | Murshid obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | beat | participle | Murshid's rival not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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