Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 17
To it he moored his boat and built the temple, that stands there to this day.
Who acts: Shah, temple · What happens: moor, build, stand · To what, where: boat, island, temple
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, temple), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moored | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moored | nsubj |
| 4 | moored | moor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 boat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moored | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 built | cc |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moored | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 temple | det |
| 10 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stands | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stands | nsubj |
| 13 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 temple | acl:relcl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stands | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stands | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moor | past | Shah | Shah's boat | island | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient to it=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | build | past | Shah not said here | the temple | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset temple=Product | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | the temple | there | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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