Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 65
To attend more closely to their prayers, Al Khisr comes in person to his temple and for forty days sits in a little niche specially reserved for him.
Who acts: Al, person, little niche · What happens: attend, come, sit, reserve, pray · To what, where: little niche
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 (Al, person, little niche), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 attend | mark |
| 2 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 comes | advcl |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 closely | advmod |
| 4 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 2 attend | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prayers | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 closely | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 attend | punct |
| 9 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | Khisr | Khisr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Al | flat |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 person | case |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sits | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 temple | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 temple | nmod:poss |
| 16 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 person | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 days | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 days | case |
| 19 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 days | nummod |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 temple | conj |
| 21 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 comes | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 niche | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 niche | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 niche | amod |
| 25 | niche | niche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sits | obl |
| 26 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 27 reserved | advmod |
| 27 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 niche | acl:relcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reserved | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | to-infinitive | Al not said here | closely property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | present | Al | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit | present | person to person's temple and forty days | a little niche | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in niche=Location | ||||
| 4 | reserve | past | a little niche not said here | for person; specially property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | pray | Al | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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