Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 67

The saint is invisible, but the mujavars or attendants of the mosque or temple know that he has been there; for when the forty days begin they place in front of the niche the Koran open at the first page and when the forty days are past, they find the Koran open at the last page.

Who acts: saint, mujavars, person, forty days · What happens: be, know, begin, place, find · To what, where: front, Koran, last page · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (saint, mujavars, person, forty days), 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 saint	det
2	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invisible	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invisible	cop
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mujavars	det
8	mujavars	mujavar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 know	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 attendants	cc
10	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mujavars	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mosque	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mosque	det
13	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attendants	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 temple	cc
15	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mosque	conj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invisible	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 there	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 there	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 there	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 there	cop
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 know	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 begin	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 begin	mark
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 begin	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 days	det
26	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 days	nummod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 begin	nsubj
28	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invisible	parataxis
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 place	nsubj
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begin	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 front	case
32	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begin	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 niche	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 niche	det
35	niche	niche	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 front	nmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 open	det
37	Koran	Koran	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 open	compound
38	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 niche	amod
39	at	at	ADP	_	42 page	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 page	det
41	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 page	amod
42	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 open	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 past	cc
44	when	when	SCONJ	_	49 past	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 days	det
46	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 days	nummod
47	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 past	nsubj
48	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 past	cop
49	past	past	ADV	_	28 begin	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 find	punct
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 find	nsubj
52	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invisible	parataxis
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Koran	det
54	Koran	Koran	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 find	obj
55	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 find	xcomp
56	at	at	ADP	_	59 page	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 page	det
58	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 page	amod
59	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 find	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 invisible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the saint			invisible property	tree rules
2	know	present	the mujavars or attendants of the mosque or temple				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present · perfect	person			there property	tree rules
4	begin	present	the forty days		front of the niche		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	place		mujavars = mujavar				tree rules
6	is	present	the forty days			past property	tree rules
7	find	present	mujavars = mujavar	the Koran	the last page	open property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent koran=Theme at page=Asset

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 67

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 67