Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 61
That robe he wore to his dying day and was in the end buried in it.
Who acts: robe · What happens: wear, die, be, bury · To what, where: end, robe
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 (robe), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 robe | det |
| 2 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 day | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 end | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 end | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | conj |
| 14 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 end | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 buried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | that robe | day | heat nsubj | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | that robe not said here | in the end | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bury | participle | the end not said here | robe | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination |
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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