Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 67
Lal Shahbaz sent to those worldly minded ones a fitting answer.
Who acts: Lal · What happens: send · To what, where: fitting answer, worldly minded ones
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 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lal | flat |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ones | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 ones | det |
| 6 | worldly | worldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 7 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 answer | det |
| 10 | fitting | fitting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answer | amod |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Lal | a fitting answer | that worldly minded ones | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to one=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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