Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 79
The chief feature of the celebration is the marriage of Lal Shahbaz to his lost bride.
Who acts: chief feature · What happens: be, lose, feature · To what, where: marriage, celebration
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 (chief feature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feature | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feature | amod |
| 3 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marriage | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 celebration | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 celebration | det |
| 6 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feature | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 marriage | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 marriage | det |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lal | case |
| 11 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 marriage | nmod |
| 12 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lal | flat |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bride | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bride | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bride | amod |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marriage | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 marriage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the chief feature of the celebration | the marriage | of Lal; to anchorite's lost bride | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | feature | the celebration | nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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