Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 178
As he read over the lines in which he had told the sorrows of Saswi, he exclaimed that the verses did not truly convey a spiritual meaning, but were full of sinful passion.
Who acts: Shah, verses, Saswi · What happens: read, tell, exclaim, not convey, be, sorrow · To what, where: lines, sorrows, spiritual meaning · Speech: someone speaks here
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, verses, Saswi), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 read | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 exclaimed | advcl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 lines | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lines | det |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 read | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 told | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 lines | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sorrows | det |
| 13 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Saswi | case |
| 15 | Saswi | Saswi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sorrows | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 18 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 convey | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 verses | det |
| 21 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 convey | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 convey | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 convey | advmod |
| 24 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 25 convey | advmod |
| 25 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 meaning | det |
| 27 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 meaning | amod |
| 28 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 convey | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 full | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 full | cc |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 full | cop |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 passion | case |
| 34 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 passion | amod |
| 35 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 full | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | Shah | the lines | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Shah | the sorrows of Saswi | the lines | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Recipient | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | Shah | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not convey | past · do-support | the verses | a spiritual meaning | truly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic | |||
| 5 | is | past | of sinful passion; full property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sorrow | Saswi | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=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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