Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 173
Put on a man’s dress and ask formally for my hand, for I am destined to be yours.”
Who acts: you, yours · What happens: put, ask, destine, be · To what, where: dress, I, yours
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, yours), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 dress | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 man | case |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ask | cc |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 9 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 8 ask | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destined | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 destined | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 destined | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 destined | aux:pass |
| 17 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ask | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 yours | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 yours | cop |
| 20 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 destined | obl:agent |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a man's dress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | for my hand; formally property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | destine | present · passive | yours | I | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | yours | tree rules |
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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