Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 146
He had, however, a brother called Chota Amrani, who had given up kufar or ingratitude and had won immortal happiness by embracing Islam.
Who acts: king, brother · What happens: have, call, give up, win, embrace · To what, where: brother, kufar, immortal happiness, Islam · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, brother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 brother | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 brother | det |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 brother | acl |
| 9 | Chota | Chota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | Amrani | Amrani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chota | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 given | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 brother | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 given | compound:prt |
| 16 | kufar | kufar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 ingratitude | cc |
| 18 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kufar | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 won | cc |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 won | aux |
| 21 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 given | conj |
| 22 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 happiness | amod |
| 23 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 won | obj |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 embracing | mark |
| 25 | embracing | embrace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 won | advcl |
| 26 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 embracing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | a brother conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a brother not said here | Chota xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give up | past · perfect | a brother | kufar or ingratitude | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kufar=Source | ||||
| 4 | win | past · perfect | a brother not said here | immortal happiness | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | embrace | gerund | a brother not said here | Islam | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent islam=Co-Agent |
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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