Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 111
As he journeyed he met another fakir, whose beautiful face was haggard and worn, as if with care.
Who acts: ABDUL, beautiful face · What happens: journey, meet, be · To what, where: fakir
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 (ABDUL, beautiful face), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 journeyed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | ccomp |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fakir | det |
| 7 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 haggard | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 haggard | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 haggard | cop |
| 13 | haggard | haggard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fakir | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 worn | cc |
| 15 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 haggard | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 care | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 care | case |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 care | mark |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 care | case |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 haggard | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | ABDUL | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | ABDUL | another fakir | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fakir=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | beautiful face | care conj; haggard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | beautiful face not said here | tree rules |
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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