Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 54
But the Hindus built on the spot a real one of stone that stands to this day.
Who acts: Hindus, real one · What happens: build, stand · To what, where: spot
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 (Hindus, real one), 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 | _ | 4 built | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hindus | det |
| 3 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spot | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stands | nsubj |
| 14 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stands | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Hindus | the spot | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on spot=Source | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | a real one of stone | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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