Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 156
I have learnt the Koran by heart; but if you will teach me its various readings, I shall become your slave.”
Who acts: I, you, heart · What happens: learn, teach, become, read · To what, where: Koran, various readings, me, slave
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 (I, you, heart), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 learnt | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 learnt | aux |
| 3 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Koran | det |
| 5 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 learnt | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learnt | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 become | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 teach | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 teach | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 teach | aux |
| 13 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 become | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 teach | obj |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 readings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 readings | amod |
| 17 | readings | reading | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 teach | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 teach | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learnt | parataxis |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 slave | nmod:poss |
| 23 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 become | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learnt | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · perfect | I | the Koran | by heart | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koran=Topic | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other a condition, not said to happen | future | you | heart's various readings | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient reading=Topic | |||
| 3 | become | shall | I | your slave | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | read | heart | nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=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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