Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 20
The above tale explains the foundation of the temple but it does not tell us who the saint himself was.
Who acts: above tale, tale, saint · What happens: explain, not tell, be · To what, where: foundation, us · 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 (above tale, tale, saint), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tale | amod |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explains | nsubj |
| 4 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foundation | det |
| 6 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explains | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 temple | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 temple | det |
| 9 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foundation | nmod |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 tell | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 tell | advmod |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 explains | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 saint | det |
| 18 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 who | nsubj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 who | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 who | cop |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | the above tale | the foundation of the temple | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | present · do-support | tale | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the saint | A.D nsubj | tree rules |
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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