Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 62
The Indus is terribly dangerous in July and August, when the mighty river swollen by the melting snows of the Himalayas comes tearing and tossing through the gorge.
Who acts: Indus, mighty river, Himalayas · What happens: be, swell, come, tear, toss, snow · To what, where: mighty river, 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 (Indus, mighty river, Himalayas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indus | det |
| 2 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dangerous | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dangerous | cop |
| 4 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 July | case |
| 7 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dangerous | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 August | cc |
| 9 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 July | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 comes | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 comes | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 river | amod |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | swollen | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 river | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 snows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 snows | det |
| 18 | melting | melting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 snows | compound |
| 19 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 swollen | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Himalayas | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Himalayas | det |
| 22 | Himalayas | Himalaya | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 snows | nmod |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dangerous | conj |
| 24 | tearing | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 comes | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tossing | cc |
| 26 | tossing | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 tearing | conj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 gorge | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gorge | det |
| 29 | gorge | gorge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tossing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Indus | july | dangerous, terribly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | swell | participle | the mighty river not said here | by the melting snows of the Himalayas | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the mighty river | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tear | gerund | the mighty river not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | toss | gerund | the mighty river not said here | the gorge | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through gorge=Destination | ||||
| 6 | snow | the Himalayas | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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