Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 188
After his master’s death, he was ill of fever and could not get well.
Who acts: disciple, master · What happens: be, not get, die
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 (disciple, master), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 master | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ill | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 death | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ill | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ill | cop |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fever | case |
| 11 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ill | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 get | advmod |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ill | conj |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | disciple | after disciple's master's death | of fever; ill property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not get | could | disciple not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | die | disciple's master | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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