Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 5
Ratno hawked cooked gram and was a devout worshipper of the Indus river.
Who acts: Ratno · What happens: hawk, cook, be · To what, where: cooked gram, devout worshipper
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 (Ratno), 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 | Ratno | Ratno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hawked | nsubj |
| 2 | hawked | hawk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gram | amod |
| 4 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hawked | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 worshipper | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 worshipper | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 worshipper | det |
| 8 | devout | devout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 worshipper | amod |
| 9 | worshipper | worshipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hawked | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 12 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 river | compound |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worshipper | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hawked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hawk | past | Ratno | cooked gram | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gram=Location | ||||
| 2 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | Ratno not said here | a devout worshipper | of the Indus river | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/8/5/