Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 52
Udero Lal then bade the winds be still and the storm at once passed away.
Who acts: Udero, winds · What happens: bade, be, pass away · To what, where: storm
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 (Udero, winds), 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 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Udero | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bade | advmod |
| 4 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 winds | det |
| 6 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 storm | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 storm | cop |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 storm | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 storm | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 storm | det |
| 11 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 passed | mark |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 passed | advmod |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bade | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 passed | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Udero | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | the winds | the storm | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pass away | participle | Udero not said here | away, once property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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