Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 46
Al Khisr touched the wall with his hand and it became as if it had been newly built.
Who acts: Al, wall · What happens: touch, become, build · To what, where: 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, wall), 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 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | nsubj |
| 2 | Khisr | Khisr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Al | flat |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 touched | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 built | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 built | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 built | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 built | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 built | aux:pass |
| 17 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 18 built | advmod |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 became | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | Al | the wall | with Moses's hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wall=Experiencer with hand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | become | past | wall | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | build | past · perfect · passive | wall | newly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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