Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 179
As he said this, he flung the great work into the Kirar Dandh, a lake close by.
Who acts: Shah · What happens: say, fling · To what, where: this, great work, Kirar Dandh · 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), 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 said | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flung | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flung | nsubj |
| 7 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 work | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 work | amod |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flung | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 Dandh | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dandh | det |
| 13 | Kirar | Kirar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dandh | compound |
| 14 | Dandh | Dandh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 flung | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lake | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Dandh | appos |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lake | amod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 close | fixed |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shah | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | Shah | the great work | the Kirar Dandh | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent work=Theme into dandh=Destination |
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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