Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 17
The saint gladly accepted the offer and was married to the beautiful girl the same evening.
Who acts: saint · What happens: accept, marry · To what, where: offer
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 (saint), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 saint | det |
| 2 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 accepted | advmod |
| 4 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 offer | det |
| 6 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 married | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 accepted | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 evening | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 evening | amod |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the saint | the offer | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | |||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | the saint not said here | evening | to the beautiful girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to girl=Co-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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