Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 168
The second legend is that Latif Shah’s wife, a year after marriage, was expecting a child.
Who acts: second legend · What happens: be
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 (second legend), 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 | 3 legend | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 legend | amod |
| 3 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 expecting | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 expecting | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 expecting | mark |
| 6 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Latif | flat |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Latif | case |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 expecting | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 year | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | appos |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 marriage | case |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 year | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 expecting | aux |
| 17 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 expecting | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 expecting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · progressive | the second legend | Latif's wife nsubj; a child obj; expect property | 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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