Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 66
The niche has comfortable cushions and in front of it is laid a copy of the Koran.
Who acts: niche · What happens: have, lay, copy · To what, where: comfortable cushions, copy, front, Koran
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 niche | det |
| 2 | niche | niche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cushions | amod |
| 5 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 front | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 laid | aux:pass |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 copy | det |
| 14 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Koran | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Koran | det |
| 17 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 copy | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the niche | comfortable cushions | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | present · passive | the niche not said here | a copy of the Koran | front of niche | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: copy=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 3 | copy | the Koran | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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