Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 148
On his return to the city his relatives wanted him to marry; but King Dalu Rai said with a cruel sneer “He is a renegade.
Who acts: relatives, king, King Dalu · What happens: want, marry, say, be, return · To what, where: king, renegade, return · 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 (relatives, king, King Dalu), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | nmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 8 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 city | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wanted | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 marry | mark |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dalu | compound |
| 16 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 17 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dalu | flat |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 sneer | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sneer | det |
| 21 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sneer | amod |
| 22 | sneer | sneer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 renegade | punct |
| 24 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 renegade | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 renegade | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 renegade | det |
| 27 | renegade | renegade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sneer | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | king's relatives | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King Dalu | with a cruel sneer and a renegade | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sneer=Manner | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | king | a renegade | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | return | king | to the city | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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