Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 43
When the kazi and the surgeon came to convert him he had vanished.
Who acts: kazi, river · What happens: come, convert, vanish · To what, where: river
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 (kazi, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kazi | det |
| 3 | kazi | kazi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 surgeon | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 surgeon | det |
| 6 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kazi | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 convert | mark |
| 9 | convert | convert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 convert | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 vanished | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 vanished | aux |
| 13 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 convert | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the kazi and the surgeon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | convert | to-infinitive | the kazi and the surgeon not said here | river | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past · perfect | river | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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