Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 84
Abdul Latif serenaded the lovely girl in verses written by himself, until he was ordered off the premises by her father.
Who acts: Abdul, father · What happens: serenade, write, order · To what, where: lovely girl, verses, ABDUL
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 (Abdul, father), 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 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 serenaded | nsubj |
| 2 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Abdul | flat |
| 3 | serenaded | serenade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 serenaded | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 verses | case |
| 8 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 serenaded | obl |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 verses | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 written | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ordered | aux:pass |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 serenaded | parataxis |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 premises | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 premises | det |
| 19 | premises | premise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ordered | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 father | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 serenaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serenade | past | Abdul | the lovely girl | verses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write | participle | verses not said here | by ABDUL | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | order | past · passive | girl's father | ABDUL | off the premises | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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