Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 120
When the tribe left, he could think of nothing but of her and he set out to seek her.
Who acts: tribe · What happens: leave, think, set out, seek · To what, where: beauty
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 (tribe), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tribe | det |
| 3 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nothing | case |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 think | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 her | cc |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 nothing | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seek | mark |
| 19 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 set | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seek | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the tribe | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | could | tribe | of nothing of beauty | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | tribe | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | tribe not said here | beauty | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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