Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 131
That night Abdul Latif watched by the grave, for he had not yet received the Burat or letter of salvation.
Who acts: night, man · What happens: watch, have, not receive, letter · To what, where: Burat, salvation
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 (night, man), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 night | appos |
| 4 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Abdul | flat |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 grave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grave | det |
| 8 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 had | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 received | advmod |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 received | advmod |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Burat | det |
| 17 | Burat | Burat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 letter | cc |
| 19 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Burat | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 salvation | case |
| 21 | salvation | salvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 letter | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | that night | by the grave | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not receive | past | man not said here | the Burat or letter of salvation | yet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burat=Theme | |||
| 4 | letter | salvation | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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