Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 189
One night Shah Latif appeared to him in a vision and bade him recite on the following Friday some lines from the Shah jo Rasalo.
Who acts: Shah · What happens: appear, recite, follow · To what, where: disciple, vision
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Shah | flat |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 appeared | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vision | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 vision | det |
| 10 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recite | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bade | cc |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vision | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 vision | nmod |
| 14 | recite | recite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Friday | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Friday | det |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Friday | amod |
| 18 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 recite | obl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 lines | det |
| 20 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Friday | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 jo | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 jo | det |
| 23 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 jo | compound |
| 24 | jo | jo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lines | nmod |
| 25 | Rasalo | Rasalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 jo | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Shah | disciple | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | recite | infinitive | a vision disciple and bade | friday | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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