Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 61
Next day they followed him and they saw their little son go to the river bank and dip the jar of cooked gram into the water.
Who acts: parents, little son · What happens: follow, see, go, dip, cook · To what, where: Udero, river bank, jar, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (parents, little son), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bank | compound |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dip | cc |
| 18 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 jar | det |
| 20 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dip | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gram | case |
| 22 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 gram | amod |
| 23 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jar | nmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dip | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | parents = parent | Udero | day | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | parents = parent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | parents's little son | the river bank | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | dip | infinitive | parents's little son not said here | the jar of cooked gram | the water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 5 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient 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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