Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 88
A Jot or lamp that gave to him who looked into its flame a vision of the Most High.
Who acts: Jot, lamp · What happens: give, look, flame · To what, where: Udero, vision, flame
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 (Jot, lamp), 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 | 2 Jot | det |
| 2 | Jot | jot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 lamp | cc |
| 4 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jot | conj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 flame | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flame | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 vision | det |
| 15 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 High | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 High | det |
| 18 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 High | amod |
| 19 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vision | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a Jot or lamp | Udero | that nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | look | past | a vision of the Most High | lamp's flame | who nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vision=Attribute | |||
| 3 | flame | lamp | nom flame «process intransitive»: 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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