Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 70
Now Udero Lal had a cousin called Phugar, who was greatly attached to him.
Who acts: Udero · What happens: have, call, attach · To what, where: cousin, Udero · 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 (Udero), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Udero | flat |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cousin | det |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cousin | acl |
| 8 | Phugar | Phugar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 attached | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 attached | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 attached | aux:pass |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 13 attached | advmod |
| 13 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cousin | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 attached | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Udero | a cousin | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a cousin not said here | Phugar xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | attach | past · passive | a cousin | Udero | greatly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to he=Co-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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