Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 93
A Daklo or musical instrument that reproduced the songs sung in heaven.
Who acts: musical instrument · What happens: reproduce, sing · To what, where: songs, heaven, Daklo
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 (musical instrument), 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 Daklo | det |
| 2 | Daklo | Daklo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 instrument | cc |
| 4 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 instrument | amod |
| 5 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Daklo | appos |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 reproduced | nsubj |
| 7 | reproduced | reproduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 instrument | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 songs | det |
| 9 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reproduced | obj |
| 10 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 songs | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heaven | case |
| 12 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sung | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Daklo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reproduce | past | musical instrument | the songs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent song=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | participle | the songs not said here | heaven | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location |
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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