Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 1
In my last chapter I related how the saint Udero Lal and his disciple Phugar, after diving into the Indus near Nasarpur, came to the surface between Rohri and Sukkur and landed on a rocky island.
Who acts: I, saint · What happens: relate, dive, come, land · To what, where: last chapter, Indus, surface, rocky island
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, saint), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 chapter | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 chapter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chapter | amod |
| 4 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 related | nsubj |
| 6 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chapter | acl:relcl |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 came | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 saint | det |
| 9 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 10 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saint | appos |
| 11 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Udero | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 disciple | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 disciple | nmod:poss |
| 14 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saint | conj |
| 15 | Phugar | Phugar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 disciple | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 diving | punct |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 diving | mark |
| 18 | diving | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 saint | acl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 Indus | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Indus | det |
| 21 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 diving | obl |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 Nasarpur | case |
| 23 | Nasarpur | Nasarpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Indus | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Indus | punct |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 related | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 surface | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 surface | det |
| 28 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 Rohri | case |
| 30 | Rohri | Rohri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 surface | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Sukkur | cc |
| 32 | Sukkur | Sukkur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Rohri | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 landed | cc |
| 34 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 came | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 island | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 island | det |
| 37 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 island | amod |
| 38 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 landed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chapter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | I | my last chapter not said here | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dive | gerund | the saint and Udero's disciple not said here | the Indus near Nasarpur | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into indus=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the saint and Udero's disciple | the surface between Rohri and Sukkur | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | land | participle | the saint and Udero's disciple not said here | a rocky island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination |
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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