Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 59
That evening Udero Lal brought back a huge pot full of grain and gave it to his mother.
Who acts: evening · What happens: bring back, give · To what, where: huge pot, grain, mother
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 (evening), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 evening | appos |
| 4 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Udero | flat |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pot | amod |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pot | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 grain | case |
| 12 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past | that evening | a huge pot | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | that evening not said here | grain | Udero's mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mother=Recipient |
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/pg76982/8/59/