Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 54
I repaired the wall for nothing, because hidden under it was a treasure, which a righteous man had buried there before he died.
Who acts: I, wall, man · What happens: repair, hide, be, bury, die · To what, where: wall, treasure, righteous man
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 (I, wall, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 repaired | nsubj |
| 2 | repaired | repair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wall | det |
| 4 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 repaired | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 repaired | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hidden | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 hidden | mark |
| 9 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 repaired | conj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 treasure | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 treasure | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 treasure | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 treasure | det |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hidden | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 buried | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 buried | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 buried | aux |
| 21 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 buried | advmod |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 died | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 died | nsubj |
| 25 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 buried | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 repaired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repair | past | I | the wall | for nothing | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wall=Patient | |||
| 2 | hide | participle | I not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | wall | a treasure | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bury | past · perfect · passive | a righteous man | there | a treasure obj | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination | |||
| 5 | die | past | man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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