Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 186
Every Friday night pilgrims keep watch by the tomb and sing passages from the saint’s immortal poem.
Who acts: Friday night pilgrims · What happens: keep · To what, where: watch
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 (Friday night pilgrims), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 pilgrims | det |
| 2 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pilgrims | compound |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pilgrims | compound |
| 4 | pilgrims | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 tomb | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tomb | det |
| 9 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 passages | cc |
| 11 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passages | compound |
| 12 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tomb | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 poem | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 saint | det |
| 15 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poem | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 saint | case |
| 17 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 poem | amod |
| 18 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passages | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | every Friday night pilgrims | watch | by the tomb and sing passages from the saint's immortal poem | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme by tomb=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/9/186/