Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 110
Where the water had spouted from the ground he was to sink a well and near it to build a rest-house.
Who acts: Udero, water · What happens: spout, be, build · To what, where: water, ground, rest house
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, water), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 spouted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spouted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spouted | aux |
| 5 | spouted | spout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sink | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spouted | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sink | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sink | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sink | mark |
| 12 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 well | det |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 sink | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 build | cc |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 build | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 build | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 build | mark |
| 19 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 well | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 house | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 rest | punct |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 build | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spout | past · perfect · passive | the water | the ground | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Udero | sink, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | water | a rest house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material house=Product |
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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