Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 72
Not long afterwards Lal Shahbaz learnt in a trance of the death of his prospective father-in-law.
Who acts: Lal, prospective father · What happens: learn, trance, die · To what, where: trance, death
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, prospective father), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 learnt | advmod |
| 4 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 learnt | nsubj |
| 5 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lal | flat |
| 6 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 trance | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trance | det |
| 9 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learnt | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 death | det |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trance | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 father | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | prospective | prospective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 father | amod |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 death | nmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Lal | a trance of the death of Sehwan's prospective father in law | afterwards property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | trance | the death of Sehwan's prospective father in law | nom trance «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | die | Sehwan's prospective father in law | nom death «event 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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