Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 123

The guardian of the shrine assured me that it had grown from a bit of stick, which the saint had one day used as a toothbrush and then carelessly thrown aside.

Who acts: guardian, saint · What happens: assure, grow, have, use, throw · To what, where: me, stick, one day

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 (guardian, 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 guardian	det
2	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assured	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 shrine	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shrine	det
5	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guardian	nmod
6	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 assured	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 grown	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grown	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grown	aux
11	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 assured	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 bit	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grown	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 stick	case
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bit	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 saint	det
20	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stick	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 day	acl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 toothbrush	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 toothbrush	det
27	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 used	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thrown	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 thrown	advmod
30	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	31 thrown	advmod
31	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 grown	conj
32	aside	aside	ADV	_	31 thrown	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	assure	past	the guardian of the shrine		me			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	grow	past · perfect	guardian				from a bit of stick	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from bit=Patient
3	have	past	the saint	stick		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	use	participle		one day not said here			as a toothbrush	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	throw	participle	guardian not said here			then	aside, carelessly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 123

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Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 123