Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 36
Aho led Udero Lal into Marak’s presence and told him the marvels that he had witnessed.
Who acts: Aho · What happens: lead, tell, witness · To what, where: Udero, presence, marvels · 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 (Aho), 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 | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Udero | flat |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 presence | case |
| 6 | Marak | Marak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Marak | case |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 marvels | det |
| 13 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 witnessed | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 witnessed | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 witnessed | aux |
| 17 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Aho | Udero | Marak's presence | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent udero=Theme into presence=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Aho not said here | the marvels | Aho iobj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | witness | past · perfect | Aho | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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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