Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 94
When twelve years old Udero Lal bade Phugar choose a spot, whereon to build him a temple, as he meant soon to leave the earth.
Who acts: Phugar · What happens: choose, build, mean, leave · To what, where: old Udero bade, temple, Phugar, earth
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 (Phugar), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 old | mark |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 old | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bade | amod |
| 5 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | compound |
| 6 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Udero | flat |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 choose | obl |
| 8 | Phugar | Phugar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | appos |
| 9 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 choose | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 build | punct |
| 13 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 build | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 build | mark |
| 15 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 choose | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 build | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 temple | det |
| 18 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 build | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meant | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 meant | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 meant | nsubj |
| 22 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 build | advcl |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 meant | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 leave | mark |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 meant | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 earth | det |
| 27 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | old Udero bade | a spot obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | a temple | Phugar | whereon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary temple=Product | |||
| 3 | mean | past | Phugar | soon property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | Phugar not said here | the earth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme |
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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