Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 34
Moses took Joshua and a fish with him and in due course missed the fish and found the prophet.
Who acts: Moses, fish · What happens: take, miss, find · To what, where: Joshua, fish, prophet
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), 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 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 missed | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 missed | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fish | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 course | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 course | case |
| 11 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 course | amod |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 him | conj |
| 13 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fish | det |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 missed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 missed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prophet | det |
| 19 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Moses | Joshua | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument joshua=Destination | ||||
| 2 | miss | past | a fish with Moses | the fish | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | past | a fish with Moses not said here | the prophet | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Topic |
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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