Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 166
Chota Amrani then to test the maiden said “As you can tell the future of others, you can surely tell your own future.”
Who acts: Chota, maiden, you · What happens: test, say, tell · To what, where: future, own future · 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 (Chota, maiden, 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 | Chota | Chota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 test | nsubj |
| 2 | Amrani | Amrani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chota | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 test | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 test | mark |
| 5 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 test | parataxis |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 10 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 future | det |
| 15 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 others | case |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 future | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | aux |
| 21 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 22 tell | advmod |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tell | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 future | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 future | amod |
| 25 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tell | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 test | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 test | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | to-infinitive | Chota | then | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | you | the future of others | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent future=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | you | your own future | surely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent future=Recipient |
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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