Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 147
One by one they had died off, including the hard-hearted Mirza Beg.
Who acts: executioners · What happens: die off · To what, where: One
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 (executioners), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 died | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 died | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | aux |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 One | parataxis |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 died | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Beg | punct |
| 9 | including | including | ADP | _ | 15 Beg | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Beg | det |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hearted | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hard | punct |
| 13 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Beg | amod |
| 14 | Mirza | Mirza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Beg | compound |
| 15 | Beg | Beg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die off | past · perfect | executioners = executioner | by one; including the hearted Mirza Beg | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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