Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 19

On the seventh day when they were on the point of drowning all their babies, they saw the river god himself rise from the waves, a beautiful figure, all of snow-white foam.

Who acts: banks, point, river · What happens: be, drown, see, go, rise · To what, where: point, babies, river, waves · 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 (banks, point, river), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 point	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 point	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 point	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 point	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 point	det
10	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 drowning	mark
12	drowning	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 point	acl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 babies	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 babies	nmod:poss
15	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drowning	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 god	nsubj
21	god	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	ccomp
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 god	obj
23	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 god	xcomp
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 waves	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 waves	det
26	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rise	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 figure	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 figure	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 figure	amod
30	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 waves	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 foam	punct
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 foam	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 foam	case
34	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 foam	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 snow	punct
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 foam	amod
37	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	banks = bank		the point			tree rules
2	drown	gerund	the point not said here	banks's babies				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
3	see	past	banks = bank			day	snow white foam conj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past	the river	river				tree rules
5	rise	infinitive	the river not said here		the waves			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wave=Initial_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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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 19