Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 99
After his death streams of molasses, sugar and milk are said to have spurted from the wall of his tomb.
What happens: say, spurt · To what, where: wall · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 streams | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 streams | nmod:poss |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streams | compound |
| 4 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 molasses | case |
| 6 | molasses | molass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 streams | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sugar | punct |
| 8 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 molasses | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 milk | cc |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sugar | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux:pass |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spurted | mark |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 spurted | aux |
| 15 | spurted | spurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 wall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wall | det |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spurted | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tomb | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wall | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | after Brartrahari's death streams of molasses and sugar and milk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spurt | to-infinitive · perfect | the wall of Brartrahari's tomb | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from wall=Source |
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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