Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 73
The fakir had been a soldier, but the awful consequences of war had so preyed on his mind that he had deserted the army.
Who acts: fakir, soldier · What happens: be, prey, desert, mind · To what, where: soldier, awful consequences, mind, army
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 (fakir, soldier), 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 fakir | det |
| 2 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soldier | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soldier | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 soldier | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 soldier | det |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 preyed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 preyed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 consequences | det |
| 10 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 consequences | amod |
| 11 | consequences | consequence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 preyed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 war | case |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 consequences | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 preyed | aux |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 preyed | advmod |
| 16 | preyed | prey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preyed | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 deserted | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 deserted | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 deserted | aux |
| 23 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 preyed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deserted | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 soldier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | the fakir | a soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prey | past · perfect · passive | a soldier not said here | the awful consequences of war | fakir's mind | tree rules | |||
| 3 | desert | past · perfect | fakir | the army | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme army=Source | ||||
| 4 | mind | fakir | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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