Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 39
But while Marak listened with pious looks to Udero Lal’s words, his heart was full of black treachery.
Who acts: Marak, heart, Udero · What happens: listen, be, word
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 (Marak, heart, Udero), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 full | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 listened | mark |
| 3 | Marak | Marak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 looks | case |
| 6 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looks | amod |
| 7 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 9 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Udero | flat |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Udero | case |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | cop |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 treachery | case |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 treachery | amod |
| 20 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Marak | with pious looks; to Udero's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Marak's heart | of black treachery; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | word | Udero | nom word «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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