Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 78
From all quarters of Sind come fakirs and musicians and dancing girls to dance before the shrine of the mighty anchorite.
Who acts: quarters · What happens: come, dance · To what, where: fakirs, shrine
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 (quarters), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 quarters | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 quarters | det |
| 3 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sind | case |
| 5 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 quarters | nmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fakirs | fakir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 musicians | cc |
| 9 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fakirs | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 girls | cc |
| 11 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 girls | compound |
| 12 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fakirs | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 dance | mark |
| 14 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | advcl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 shrine | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shrine | det |
| 17 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dance | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 anchorite | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 anchorite | det |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 anchorite | amod |
| 21 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shrine | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | all quarters of Sind | fakirs and musicians and dancing girls | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fakir=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | to-infinitive | all quarters of Sind not said here | the shrine of the mighty anchorite | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before shrine=Location |
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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