Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 91
He went to a carpenter and induced him to hollow out a tamarisk tree, that stood by itself in a cemetery.
Who acts: ABDUL, that · What happens: go, induce, hollow out, stand · To what, where: carpenter, ABDUL, tamarisk tree, cemetery
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, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 carpenter | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 carpenter | det |
| 5 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 induced | cc |
| 7 | induced | induce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 induced | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hollow | mark |
| 10 | hollow | hollow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 induced | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 hollow | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | tamarisk | tamarisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hollow | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tree | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 itself | case |
| 19 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 stood | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 cemetery | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cemetery | det |
| 22 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | ABDUL | a carpenter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to carpenter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | induce | past | ABDUL not said here | ABDUL | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hollow out | to-infinitive | ABDUL not said here | a tamarisk tree | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tree=Source | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | that | a cemetery | by tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=Location |
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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