Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 7
Ratno was sixty and Devki over forty, when Udero Lal was born.
What happens: be, bear · To what, where: sixty, Udero, Ratno
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: 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 | Ratno | Ratno | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sixty | cop |
| 3 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Ratno | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Devki | cc |
| 5 | Devki | Devki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ratno | conj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 forty | case |
| 7 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Ratno | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 born | advmod |
| 10 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Udero | flat |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ratno | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ratno | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sixty | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | Udero | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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