Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 15
They did so and the stream at Zinda Pir’s command, changed its course and leaving Alor, brought the boat and its burden to Rohri.
Who acts: Hussain, stream, Zinda · What happens: do, change, leave, bring, command, burden · To what, where: course, Alor, boat · 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 (Hussain, stream, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 changed | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stream | det |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 command | case |
| 8 | Zinda | Zinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 command | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Pir | Pir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Zinda | flat |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Zinda | case |
| 11 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stream | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stream | punct |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 course | nmod:poss |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 leaving | cc |
| 17 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 changed | conj |
| 18 | Alor | Alor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 leaving | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boat | det |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 burden | cc |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 burden | nmod:poss |
| 25 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boat | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Rohri | case |
| 27 | Rohri | Rohri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 burden | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Hussain | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | change | past | the stream at Zinda's command | stream's course | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the stream at Zinda's command not said here | Alor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alor=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | Hussain not said here | the boat and stream's burden to Rohri | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | command | Zinda | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | burden | stream | to Rohri | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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