Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 14
Through him they gained a fortnight’s respite.
Who acts: pots, fortnight · What happens: gain, respite · To what, where: respite
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 (pots, fortnight), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gained | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gained | nsubj |
| 4 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fortnight | det |
| 6 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 respite | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 fortnight | case |
| 8 | respite | respite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gained | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | pots = pot | a fortnight's respite | through story | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respite=Theme | |||
| 2 | respite | a fortnight | nom respite «state 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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