Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 180
He therefore demanded that Chota Amrani should send Fatima to his palace.
Who acts: young, Chota · What happens: demand, send · To what, where: Fatima, palace · 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 (young, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 demanded | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 demanded | advmod |
| 3 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 send | mark |
| 5 | Chota | Chota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 send | nsubj |
| 6 | Amrani | Amrani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chota | flat |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 send | aux |
| 8 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 demanded | ccomp |
| 9 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | young | therefore property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | send | should | Chota | Fatima | young's palace | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fatima=Theme to palace=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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