Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 62
When he pulled it out again, it had become a great pot brimming over with grain.
Who acts: Udero, jar, great pot · What happens: pull out, become, brim over · To what, where: jar, great pot
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, jar, great pot), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 become | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | aux |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pot | amod |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | xcomp |
| 14 | brimming | brim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 pot | acl |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 brimming | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 grain | case |
| 17 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brimming | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | Udero | jar | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | jar | a great pot | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | brim over | gerund | a great pot not said here | with grain; over property | tree rules |
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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