Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 156
In despair Shah Latif sought the aid of Bahawal Hak, a holy man of Multan.
Who acts: Shah · What happens: seek · To what, where: aid, despair
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 (Shah), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 despair | case |
| 2 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obl |
| 3 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | nsubj |
| 4 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Shah | flat |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 aid | det |
| 7 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Bahawal | case |
| 9 | Bahawal | Bahawal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 aid | nmod |
| 10 | Hak | Hak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bahawal | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Bahawal | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Multan | case |
| 16 | Multan | Multan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Shah | the aid of Bahawal | despair | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent aid=Theme in despair=Location |
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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