Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 61
“Safe comes the ship to harbour Through billows and through gales If once the great twin brethren Sit shining on the sails.”
Who acts: Safe · What happens: come, harbour, sit, shine · To what, where: ship, billows, great twin brethren, sails
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 (Safe), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | Safe | safe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 harbour | mark |
| 7 | harbour | harbour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | advcl |
| 8 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 9 billows | case |
| 9 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 harbour | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gales | cc |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 gales | case |
| 12 | gales | gale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 billows | conj |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 Sit | mark |
| 14 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 18 brethren | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brethren | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brethren | amod |
| 17 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brethren | compound |
| 18 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Sit | obl |
| 19 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 harbour | advcl |
| 20 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Sit | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sails | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sails | det |
| 23 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shining | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Safe | the ship | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ship=Theme | ||||
| 2 | harbour in a quote | to-infinitive | Safe not said here | billows and gales | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Safe not said here | the great twin brethren | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine in a quote | gerund | Safe not said here | the sails | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sail=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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