Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 60
He had suffered no harm from the immersion, but the heat of the oil had turned his robe crimson.
Who acts: master, oil · What happens: suffer, turn, heat · To what, where: harm, immersion, heat
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 (master, oil), 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 | 3 suffered | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffered | aux |
| 3 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 harm | det |
| 5 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffered | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 immersion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 immersion | det |
| 8 | immersion | immersion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heat | det |
| 12 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 oil | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oil | det |
| 15 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heat | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | aux |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 suffered | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 crimson | nmod:poss |
| 19 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crimson | compound |
| 20 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past · perfect | master | no harm | the immersion | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn | past · perfect · passive | the heat of the oil | master's robe crimson obj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme crimson=Result | ||||
| 3 | heat | the oil | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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