Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 1
Udero Lal was born on Cheti Chand, the first day of the Sindhi month Cheti and also the first day of what is known as the Chaitradi year—the year that begins with the month of Cheti or Chaitra instead of the month of Kartak.
Who acts: year · What happens: bear, know, begin · To what, where: Udero, Cheti
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year), 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 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Udero | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Cheti | case |
| 6 | Cheti | Cheti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 7 | Chand | Chand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cheti | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cheti | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Cheti | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cheti | det |
| 14 | Sindhi | Sindhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 month | compound |
| 15 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Cheti | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Cheti | Cheti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 day | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 day | cc |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 day | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 day | amod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Cheti | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 what | case |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 day | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 known | aux:pass |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 year | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 year | det |
| 28 | Chaitradi | Chaitradi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 year | compound |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 known | obl |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 year | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 year | det |
| 32 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Cheti | appos |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 begins | nsubj |
| 34 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 year | acl:relcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 month | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 month | det |
| 37 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 begins | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Cheti | case |
| 39 | Cheti | Cheti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 month | nmod |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 Chaitra | cc |
| 41 | Chaitra | Chaitra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Cheti | conj |
| 42 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 45 month | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 instead | fixed |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 month | det |
| 45 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 begins | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Kartak | case |
| 47 | Kartak | Kartak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 month | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Udero | Cheti | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | begin | present | the year | month | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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