Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 108
At first Phugar was broken-hearted and nearly died of grief.
What happens: break, die · To what, where: Phugar
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Phugar | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Phugar | advmod |
| 3 | Phugar | Phugar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
| 7 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 broken | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 died | cc |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 died | advmod |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 grief | case |
| 12 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | Phugar | hearted property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: at phugar=Location | ||||
| 2 | die | past | of grief; nearly property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |
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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