Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 113
But while the Hindus wished to build a temple, Marak and the Musulmans wished to build a mosque and quarrels broke out between them.
Who acts: Hindus, Marak, quarrels · What happens: wish, build, break out · To what, where: temple, mosque
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 (Hindus, Marak, quarrels), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 wished | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 wished | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hindus | det |
| 4 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wished | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 build | mark |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wished | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 temple | det |
| 9 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
| 11 | Marak | Marak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wished | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Musulmans | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Musulmans | det |
| 14 | Musulmans | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Marak | conj |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 build | mark |
| 17 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wished | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mosque | det |
| 19 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 build | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 broke | cc |
| 21 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 broke | nsubj |
| 22 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wished | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 broke | compound:prt |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 broke | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the Hindus | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Hindus not said here | a temple | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset temple=Product | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | Marak and the Musulmans | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | Marak and the Musulmans not said here | a mosque | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mosque=Product | ||||
| 5 | break out | past | quarrels | between kazi | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Location |
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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