Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 97
Shah Habib licked the sores, so that they healed, all save one obstinate one that remained open on his forehead.
Who acts: Shah, sores, one obstinate one · What happens: lick, heal, save, remain · To what, where: sores, one obstinate one, forehead
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 (Shah, sores, one obstinate one), 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 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 licked | nsubj |
| 2 | Habib | Habib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shah | flat |
| 3 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sores | det |
| 5 | sores | sore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 licked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 healed | punct |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 healed | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 so | fixed |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 healed | nsubj |
| 10 | healed | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 licked | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 save | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 save | advmod |
| 13 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 healed | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 one | nummod |
| 15 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 save | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remained | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 forehead | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 22 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 licked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lick | past | Shah | the sores | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sore=Source | ||||
| 2 | heal | past | sores = sore | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | save | present | sores = sore not said here | one obstinate one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | one obstinate one | Shah's forehead | open property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on forehead=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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