Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 112
As the fakir walked, he cried always “Jhal fakir, Hal fakir (Take it fakir, go fakir).”
Who acts: fakir · What happens: walk, cry, take, go · To what, where: Jhal fakir, face, fakir · 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 (fakir), 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 | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fakir | det |
| 3 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 cried | advmod |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fakir | punct |
| 10 | Jhal | Jhal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fakir | compound |
| 11 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fakir | punct |
| 13 | Hal | hal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fakir | amod |
| 14 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fakir | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Take | punct |
| 16 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Take | obj |
| 18 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Take | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 Take | conj |
| 21 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obj |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Take | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the fakir | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | fakir | Jhal fakir and Hal fakir | always property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | face | fakir obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme fakir=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | fakir | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fakir=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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