Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 26
Balya Ebn Malkan was the contemporary of Moses and in Chapter 18 of the Koran we find him going with Moses on a most interesting circular tour.
Who acts: Balya, we · What happens: be, find, go · To what, where: Balya, 18, interesting circular tour
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 (Balya, we), 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 | Balya | Balya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 contemporary | nsubj |
| 2 | Ebn | Ebn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Balya | flat |
| 3 | Malkan | Malkan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Balya | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 contemporary | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 contemporary | det |
| 6 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Moses | case |
| 8 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 contemporary | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 18 | case |
| 11 | Chapter | Chapter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 18 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 find | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Koran | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Koran | det |
| 15 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 18 | nmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 contemporary | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 find | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Moses | case |
| 21 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 going | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 tour | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tour | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 interesting | advmod |
| 25 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tour | amod |
| 26 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tour | amod |
| 27 | tour | tour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 going | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 contemporary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Balya | of Moses; contemporary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present | we | Balya | 18 Chapter of the Koran | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | Balya not said here | a interesting circular tour | with Moses | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with moses=Beneficiary |
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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