Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 50
There they saw a splendid temple and in it were seated Udero Lal, once more a beautiful youth and round him thousands of Hindus, perfectly sheltered from the storm that had fallen on Tatta.
Who acts: kazi, storm · What happens: see, seat, round, shelter, fall · To what, where: splendid temple, temple, Udero, storm, Tatta
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, storm), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 temple | amod |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seated | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seated | aux:pass |
| 11 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 seated | obj |
| 13 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Udero | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 once | punct |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 saw | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 youth | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 youth | amod |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 once | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 round | cc |
| 21 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 round | obj |
| 23 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 round | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Hindus | case |
| 25 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 thousands | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sheltered | punct |
| 27 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 28 sheltered | advmod |
| 28 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 storm | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 storm | det |
| 31 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sheltered | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 fallen | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fallen | aux |
| 34 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 storm | acl:relcl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 Tatta | case |
| 36 | Tatta | Tatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 fallen | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | kazi | a splendid temple | there | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer temple=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | temple | Udero obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | round | infinitive | kazi not said here | Udero | thousands of Hindus obj | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Patient thousand=Result | |||
| 4 | shelter | participle | kazi not said here | the storm | perfectly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | the storm | Tatta | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tatta=Location |
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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