Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 127
Their eyes met, but the storm of passion that swept over both of them was too mighty for their strength to bear.
Who acts: eyes, storm, both, passion · What happens: meet, sweep, be, bear, storm
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 (eyes, storm, both, passion), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swept | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 swept | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swept | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 passion | case |
| 9 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 storm | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 swept | nsubj |
| 11 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 12 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 18 mighty | mark |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 mighty | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 both | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mighty | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 mighty | advmod |
| 18 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 swept | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 strength | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 strength | nmod:poss |
| 21 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mighty | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bear | mark |
| 23 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 strength | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | verses's eyes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sweep | past | the storm of passion | that nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | both of verses | for verses's strength; mighty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear | to-infinitive | both of verses not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | storm | passion | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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