Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 87
The unhappy Abdul Latif went and sat on a sandhill and watched the house of the Moghul girl with such devotion from afar, that the sandhill grew round him until it had covered all but his head.
Who acts: unhappy Abdul, sandhill · What happens: go, sit, watch, grow, cover · To what, where: sandhill, house
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 (unhappy Abdul, sandhill), 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 | 3 Abdul | det |
| 2 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Abdul | amod |
| 3 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Abdul | flat |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sat | cc |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sandhill | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sandhill | det |
| 10 | sandhill | sandhill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 watched | cc |
| 12 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 watched | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | Moghul | Moghul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | compound |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 devotion | case |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 devotion | amod |
| 21 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 afar | case |
| 23 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 devotion | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 grew | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 grew | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sandhill | det |
| 27 | sandhill | sandhill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grew | nsubj |
| 28 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 watched | conj |
| 29 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 grew | obl |
| 31 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 covered | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 covered | aux |
| 34 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 grew | advcl |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 covered | advmod |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 head | cc |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 covered | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the unhappy Abdul | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | the unhappy Abdul not said here | a sandhill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sandhill=Location | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | the unhappy Abdul not said here | the house of the Moghul girl with such devotion from afar | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the sandhill | round ABDUL | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cover | past · perfect · passive | sandhill | ABDUL's head conj; all property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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