Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 137
He had not been able to hide his love but to the whole world had told his sorrows.
Who acts: fakir · What happens: not be, hide, tell, love, sorrow · To what, where: love, sorrows · 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 able | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hide | mark |
| 7 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hide | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | obl |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 hide | ccomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sorrows | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · perfect | fakir | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | fakir not said here | fakir's love | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | fakir not said here | fakir's sorrows | to the whole world | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Topic to world=Recipient | |||
| 4 | love | fakir | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sorrow | fakir | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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