Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 82
But their deaths preyed on his mind and he longed to rejoin the mighty river from which he had sprung.
Who acts: deaths, Udero, Ratno · What happens: prey, long, rejoin, spring, die, mind · To what, where: mind, mighty river
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 (deaths, Udero, Ratno), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 preyed | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 deaths | nmod:poss |
| 3 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 preyed | nsubj |
| 4 | preyed | prey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 preyed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 longed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 longed | nsubj |
| 10 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 preyed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rejoin | mark |
| 12 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 longed | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 14 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 river | amod |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rejoin | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sprung | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sprung | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sprung | aux |
| 20 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 river | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 preyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prey | participle | Ratno's deaths | Udero's mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | long | past | Udero | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rejoin not said to happen | to-infinitive | Udero not said here | the mighty river | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spring | past · perfect | Udero | the mighty river | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | die | Ratno | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | mind | Udero | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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