Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 158
The latter in turn advised him to migrate to Bhitta, then a desolate mound of sand.
Who acts: latter turn, Shah · What happens: advise, migrate, desolate · To what, where: Shah, Bhitta, mound
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 (latter turn, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 turn | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turn | amod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 turn | case |
| 4 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 advised | nsubj |
| 5 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 advised | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 migrate | mark |
| 8 | migrate | migrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 advised | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Bhitta | case |
| 10 | Bhitta | Bhitta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 migrate | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desolate | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 desolate | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 desolate | det |
| 14 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 advised | conj |
| 15 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 desolate | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sand | case |
| 17 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mound | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | the latter turn | Shah | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | migrate not said to happen | to-infinitive | Shah not said here | Bhitta | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | desolate | infinitive | the latter turn not said here | mound of sand | then | 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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