Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 115
All one night they kept vigil until they heard a voice that said “In my sight there is neither caste nor creed.”
Who acts: quarrels, voice, caste, my · What happens: keep, hear, say, be, sight · To what, where: vigil, voice, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (quarrels, voice, caste, my), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 night | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 night | nummod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | vigil | vigil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obj |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 voice | acl:relcl |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 15 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sight | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | obl |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 caste | det |
| 21 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | nsubj |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 creed | cc |
| 23 | creed | creed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caste | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | quarrels = quarrel | vigil | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vigil=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past | quarrels = quarrel | a voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | neither caste nor creed | my sight; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 5 | sight in a quote | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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