Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 109
One night he saw in a dream Udero Lal who bade him put away his grief and build a temple on the spot where the saint had vanished.
Who acts: Udero, saint · What happens: see, bade, put away, build, vanish · To what, where: dream, Udero, grief, temple, spot
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 (Udero, saint), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dream | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dream | det |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 8 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 put | nsubj |
| 9 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Udero | flat |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bade | nsubj |
| 11 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Udero | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | obj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 put | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 grief | nmod:poss |
| 16 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 build | cc |
| 18 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 temple | det |
| 20 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 build | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 spot | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spot | det |
| 23 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 build | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 vanished | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 saint | det |
| 26 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 vanished | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 vanished | aux |
| 28 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 spot | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Udero | a dream | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | bade | past | Udero | Udero | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put away | past | Udero | Udero's grief | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent grief=Goal | |||
| 4 | build | present | Udero not said here | a temple | the spot | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent temple=Theme on spot=Source | |||
| 5 | vanish | past · perfect | the saint | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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