Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 12
The saint could not stoop to such wickedness; but to get rid of her importunities, he promised to fetch her away that very night.
Who acts: saint · What happens: not stoop, get, promise, fetch away · To what, where: 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 (saint), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 saint | det |
| 2 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stoop | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stoop | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stoop | advmod |
| 5 | stoop | stoop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wickedness | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wickedness | amod |
| 8 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stoop | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 stoop | parataxis |
| 13 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 importunities | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 importunities | nmod:poss |
| 16 | importunities | importunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 promised | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 promised | nsubj |
| 19 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fetch | mark |
| 21 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 promised | xcomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fetch | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 fetch | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 night | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 night | advmod |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fetch | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stoop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stoop | could | the saint | to such wickedness | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | saint | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fetch away not said to happen | to-infinitive | saint not said here | wife | night | away property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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