Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 159
She is a maiden and you cannot enter her home in a man’s dress.
Who acts: teacher, you · What happens: be, not enter · To what, where: home, dress
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 (teacher, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 maiden | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 enter | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 enter | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 enter | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 enter | advmod |
| 9 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 maiden | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enter | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 dress | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dress | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 man | case |
| 16 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enter | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | teacher | maiden property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not enter | can | you | teacher's home | a man's dress | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Destination |
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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