Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 149
Let him go on a pilgrimage to Mecca and there wed the daughter of some famous Arab; but he shall not marry the daughter of any Hindu subject of mine!”
Who acts: you, king · What happens: let, go, w, not marry · To what, where: king, pilgrimage, daughter
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 (you, king), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 pilgrimage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pilgrimage | det |
| 6 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Mecca | case |
| 8 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pilgrimage | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wed | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 wed | expl |
| 11 | wed | w | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Mecca | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 daughter | det |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Arab | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 Arab | nsubj |
| 16 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Arab | amod |
| 17 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 daughter | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 marry | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 marry | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 marry | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 marry | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 marry | advmod |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 daughter | det |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 marry | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 subject | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 subject | det |
| 28 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 subject | amod |
| 29 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 mine | case |
| 31 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 subject | nmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | king not said here | a pilgrimage to Mecca | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on pilgrimage=Location | ||||
| 3 | w | past | king not said here | the daughter of famous Arab | there | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not marry | shall | king | the daughter of any Hindu subject of mine | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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