Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 55
He left two orphan sons and it is God’s will that when they reach man’s state, they shall find their father’s treasure.”
Who acts: man, wall, seas, God, father · What happens: leave, be, reach, find, treasure · To what, where: two orphan sons, state, that
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 (man, wall, seas, God), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sons | nummod |
| 4 | orphan | orphan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sons | amod |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 left | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 God | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 God | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 God | cop |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 find | nsubj |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 God | case |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 find | obj |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 reach | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reach | nsubj |
| 15 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | advcl |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 state | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 man | case |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reach | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reach | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 left | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 father | case |
| 26 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | man | two orphan sons | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | wall | 's God | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | present | seas = sea | man's state | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent state=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | shall · future | God | that | seas = sea nsubj; seas's father's treasure obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme treasure=Attribute | |||
| 5 | treasure | seas's father | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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