Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 177
After two or three months had passed, Chota Amrani told Fatima that he must take her back with him to Sind.
Who acts: Chota · What happens: pass, tell, take back, sind · To what, where: two months, Fatima · 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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 passed | mark |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 months | nummod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 three | cc |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 two | conj |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 told | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
| 9 | Chota | Chota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 10 | Amrani | Amrani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chota | flat |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 Sind | mark |
| 22 | Sind | sind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | two months | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Chota | Fatima | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fatima=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take back not said to happen | must | Chota | Fatima | with request | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 4 | sind | to-infinitive | Chota not said here | 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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