Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 14
He appeared in a vision to the young girl and bade her and her father board their boat and weigh anchor.
Who acts: Zinda · What happens: appear, bade · To what, where: vision, girl
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 (Zinda), 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 | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vision | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vision | det |
| 5 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 11 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 father | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 her | conj |
| 16 | board | board | ADP | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 boat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bade | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 anchor | cc |
| 20 | weigh | weigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 anchor | compound |
| 21 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boat | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Zinda | a vision | to the young girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vision=Location | |||
| 2 | bade | past | Zinda not said here | girl | board Hussain's boat and weigh anchor | 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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