Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 63
So one who has seen the Indus in flood can never forget the sight.
Who acts: one · What happens: see, not forget · To what, where: Indus, flood, sight
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 (one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 forget | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Indus | det |
| 7 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 flood | case |
| 9 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 forget | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 forget | advmod |
| 12 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forget | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | the Indus | flood | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indus=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not forget | can | one | the sight | tree rules |
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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