Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 33
If Moses took a fish with him in a basket, the spot where he missed the fish would be the place where the prophet of the green robe dwelt.
Who acts: Moses, fish, prophet · What happens: take, miss, be, dwell · To what, where: fish, basket, place
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 (Moses, fish, prophet), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 took | mark |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 basket | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 basket | det |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spot | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 basket | appos |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 missed | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 missed | nsubj |
| 16 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spot | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 place | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 missed | ccomp |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 dwelt | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prophet | det |
| 25 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dwelt | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 robe | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 robe | det |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 robe | amod |
| 29 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 prophet | nmod |
| 30 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Moses | a fish | a basket | with fish | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Value in basket=Location | ||
| 2 | miss | past | Moses | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | would | the fish | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dwell | past | the prophet of the green robe | vn exist-47.1 «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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