Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 77
A few minutes later they came to the surface and found themselves in mid-stream between Rohri and Sukkur.
Who acts: hands · What happens: come, find · To what, where: surface, hands, mid-stream
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 (hands), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minutes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minutes | amod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 came | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 surface | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 surface | det |
| 9 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mid-stream | case |
| 14 | mid-stream | mid-stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 Rohri | case |
| 16 | Rohri | Rohri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mid-stream | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Sukkur | cc |
| 18 | Sukkur | Sukkur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rohri | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hands = hand | the surface | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | hands = hand not said here | hands = hand | mid-stream between Rohri and Sukkur | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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