Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 74
“Will you plunge with me into the Indus?” asked Udero Lal.
Who acts: Udero · What happens: plunge, ask · To what, where: Indus, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 plunge | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 plunge | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 plunge | nsubj |
| 4 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 plunge | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 Indus | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Indus | det |
| 9 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plunge | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 plunge | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 plunge | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Udero | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge in a quote | future | Udero | the Indus | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into indus=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Udero | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent udero=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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