Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Opening, sentence 12
To give God full possession of it, Satan sacrificed himself and rebelled, although he knew that he would thereafter be punished eternally.
Who acts: Satan, God · What happens: give, sacrifice, rebel, know, punish, possess · To what, where: full possession, God, possession · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satan, God), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 give | mark |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sacrificed | advcl |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 possession | amod |
| 5 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possession | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 9 | Satan | Satan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 10 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 sacrificed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rebelled | cc |
| 13 | rebelled | rebel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sacrificed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 17 knew | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rebelled | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 punished | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 punished | aux |
| 21 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 23 punished | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 punished | aux:pass |
| 23 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | eternally | eternally | ADV | _ | 23 punished | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sacrificed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | to-infinitive | Satan not said here | full possession of possession | God | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent god=Recipient possession=Theme | |||
| 2 | sacrifice | past | Satan | God | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rebel | past | Satan not said here | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | past | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | punish | would · passive | God | eternally, thereafter property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | possess | possession | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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