Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 119
The beauty of the girl’s voice and face had burnt into his brain.
What happens: burnt · To what, where: beauty, brain
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beauty | det |
| 2 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 girl | case |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beauty | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 face | cc |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | conj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 burnt | aux |
| 11 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 brain | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brain | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burnt | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | past · perfect · passive | the beauty of the girl's voice and face | fakir's brain | 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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