Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 58
And because he drank the waters of immortality, he is always connected with running water; and with what nobler stream, could he be associated than the Indus, as it passes through the Sukkur gorge?
Who acts: God, stream · What happens: drink, connect, run, associate, pass · To what, where: waters, God, Sukkur gorge
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 (God, stream), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drank | cc |
| 2 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 drank | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drank | nsubj |
| 4 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waters | det |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drank | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 immortality | case |
| 8 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waters | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 connected | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 connected | aux:pass |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 connected | advmod |
| 13 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drank | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 connected | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 what | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 drank | parataxis |
| 21 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 stream | amod |
| 22 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 what | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 associated | punct |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 associated | aux |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 associated | aux:pass |
| 27 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drank | conj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 Indus | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Indus | det |
| 30 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 associated | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 passes | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 passes | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 passes | nsubj |
| 34 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 associated | parataxis |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 gorge | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 gorge | det |
| 37 | Sukkur | Sukkur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 gorge | compound |
| 38 | gorge | gorge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 passes | obl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | God | the waters of immortality | what nobler stream parataxis | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 2 | connect | present · passive | God | with running water; always property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with water=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | associate | could · passive | God | than the Indus | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pass | present | stream | the Sukkur gorge | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gorge=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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