Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 98
Udero Lal scratched with his spear the surface of the earth and shewed the astonished Memon treasures of gold and silver.
Who acts: Udero · What happens: scratch, shew, treasure · To what, where: surface, astonished Memon treasures, gold
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 (Udero), 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 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | nsubj |
| 2 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Udero | flat |
| 3 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 spear | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 surface | det |
| 8 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surface | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shewed | cc |
| 13 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratched | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 treasures | det |
| 15 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 treasures | amod |
| 16 | Memon | Memon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 treasures | compound |
| 17 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shewed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treasures | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 silver | cc |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gold | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past | Udero | the surface of the earth | with Udero's spear | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Patient with spear=Instrument | |||
| 2 | shew | past | Udero not said here | the astonished Memon treasures of gold and silver | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | treasure | gold and silver | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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