Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 25
Aho was about to seize it, when it changed instantly into a youth of sixteen, then into an old man and once more into an infant.
Who acts: Aho, governor · What happens: be, seize, change · To what, where: governor, youth
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 (Aho, governor), 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 | Aho | Aho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 seize | mark |
| 5 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seize | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 changed | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | conj |
| 11 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 10 changed | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 youth | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sixteen | case |
| 16 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 youth | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 man | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 about | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 once | cc |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 man | conj |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 once | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 infant | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 infant | det |
| 28 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 once | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Aho | a old man conj; about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | to-infinitive | Aho not said here | governor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | past | governor | into a youth of sixteen result; instantly property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into youth=Result |
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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