Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 21
He had heard their supplications and within the allotted fortnight he would be born in the house of Ratno, the gram hawker.
Who acts: river, banks · What happens: hear, allot, bear, supplicate · To what, where: supplications, river, 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 (river, banks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 supplications | nmod:poss |
| 5 | supplications | supplication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 born | cc |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 fortnight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fortnight | det |
| 9 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fortnight | amod |
| 10 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 born | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 born | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 born | aux:pass |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 born | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ratno | case |
| 19 | Ratno | Ratno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hawker | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hawker | det |
| 22 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hawker | compound |
| 23 | hawker | hawker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Ratno | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | river | banks's supplications | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer supplication=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | allot | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bear | would · passive | river | the house of Ratno | fortnight | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | supplicate | banks = bank | nom supplication «communication 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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