Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 85
Undefeated, he turned himself into a pigeon and cooed his love to the fair maiden from the trellis of her balcony.
Who acts: Undefeated · What happens: turn, coo, love · To what, where: Undefeated, pigeon, love, fair maiden, trellis
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 (Undefeated), 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 | Undefeated | Undefeated | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Undefeated | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 turned | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 pigeon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pigeon | det |
| 8 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cooed | cc |
| 10 | cooed | coo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 love | nmod:poss |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cooed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 maiden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maiden | amod |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cooed | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 trellis | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trellis | det |
| 19 | trellis | trellis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cooed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 balcony | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 balcony | nmod:poss |
| 22 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trellis | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Undefeated | Undefeated | a pigeon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into pigeon=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | coo | past | Undefeated not said here | Undefeated's love | the fair maiden | the trellis of girl's balcony | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Topic to maiden=Recipient | ||
| 3 | love | Undefeated | nom love «feeling 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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