Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 45
There they saw a crumbling wall which the citizens could not repair.
Who acts: Al, citizens · What happens: see, crumble, not repair · To what, where: crumbling wall
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 (Al, citizens), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 5 | crumbling | crumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 wall | amod |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 repair | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 citizens | det |
| 9 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 repair | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 repair | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 repair | advmod |
| 12 | repair | repair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wall | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Al | a crumbling wall | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | crumble | gerund | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | not repair | could | the citizens | a crumbling wall | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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