Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 104
But Haidar Ali cursed the wicked Neran; and stretching wide the five fingers of his right hand made the bhundo sign at him.
Who acts: Haidar, five fingers · What happens: curse, stretch, make · To what, where: wicked Neran, bhundo sign
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Haidar, five fingers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 cursed | cc |
| 2 | Haidar | Haidar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | nsubj |
| 3 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Haidar | flat |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Neran | det |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Neran | amod |
| 7 | Neran | Neran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretching | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stretching | cc |
| 10 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cursed | advcl |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 10 stretching | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fingers | det |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fingers | nummod |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fingers | nmod |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stretching | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sign | det |
| 21 | bhundo | bhundo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sign | compound |
| 22 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past | Haidar | the wicked Neran | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neran=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch | gerund | Haidar not said here | wide property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the five fingers of Haidar's right hand | the bhundo sign | at Haidar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
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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