Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 101
They were pouring milk over it and as they did so, they repeated “O Grandmother, drink this milk.”
Who acts: lamentations · What happens: pour, do, repeat, drink · To what, where: milk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lamentations), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pouring | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pouring | aux |
| 3 | pouring | pour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pouring | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pouring | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 repeated | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 did | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 repeated | advcl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 did | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 repeated | nsubj |
| 14 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pouring | conj |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
| 16 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 Grandmother | case |
| 17 | Grandmother | Grandmother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 drink | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Grandmother | punct |
| 19 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 repeated | ccomp |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 milk | det |
| 21 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drink | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past · progressive | lamentations = lamentation | milk | milk | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | lamentations = lamentation | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | repeat | past | lamentations = lamentation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | infinitive | lamentations = lamentation not said here | this milk | of Grandmother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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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