Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 37
Moses promised to do so and the two prophets went to the sea shore and boarded a ship.
Who acts: Moses, two prophets · What happens: promise, do, go, board · To what, where: sea shore, ship
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, two prophets), 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 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prophets | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 prophets | nummod |
| 9 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shore | compound |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 boarded | cc |
| 16 | boarded | board | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boarded | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Moses | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Moses not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the two prophets | the sea shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | board | past | the two prophets not said here | a ship | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ship=Location |
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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