Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 72
The tale runs that while Shah Karim was yet a boy, he met a fakir in a mosque.
Who acts: tale, Shah Karim, Karim · What happens: run, be, meet · To what, where: boy, fakir, mosque
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 (tale, Shah Karim, Karim), 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 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 met | mark |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 boy | mark |
| 6 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Karim | compound |
| 7 | Karim | Karim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 boy | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 boy | cop |
| 9 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 11 boy | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boy | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 runs | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fakir | det |
| 16 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mosque | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mosque | det |
| 19 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the tale | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Shah Karim | a boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | Karim | a fakir | a mosque | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fakir=Co-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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