Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 175
The child was still-born and no other came to soothe the poor mother’s grief.
Who acts: other · What happens: bear, come, soothe · To what, where: child, grief
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 (other), 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 | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 born | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 still | punct |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 soothe | mark |
| 12 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mother | amod |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grief | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 mother | case |
| 17 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soothe | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the child | still | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | no other | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | soothe | to-infinitive | no other not said here | the poor mother's grief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grief=Experiencer |
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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