Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 11
As he passed a Hindu’s shop, the owner’s wife fell so desperately in love with him, that she begged him to take her away from her husband and marry her.
Who acts: Makhdum, wife · What happens: pass, fall, beg, take away, marry · To what, where: shop, love, Makhdum, wife
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 (Makhdum, wife), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Hindu | det |
| 5 | Hindu | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shop | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Hindu | case |
| 7 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 owner | det |
| 10 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 owner | case |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 desperately | advmod |
| 15 | desperately | desperately | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 begged | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 begged | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 begged | nsubj |
| 23 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 begged | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 begged | xcomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 take | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 take | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 husband | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 husband | nmod:poss |
| 31 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 marry | cc |
| 33 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 take | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 marry | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Makhdum | a Hindu's shop | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the owner's wife | love | with Makhdum; desperately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | wife | Makhdum | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take away not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | wife | from wife's husband; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme from husband=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | marry | infinitive | wife not said here | wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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