Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 182
But one day when Chota Amrani was absent from the city, Dalu Rai forced his way into his brother’s house and tried to seduce Fatima.
Who acts: Chota, Dalu · What happens: be, force, try, seduce · To what, where: city, way, house, Fatima
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, Dalu), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 forced | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 absent | advmod |
| 5 | Chota | Chota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 absent | nsubj |
| 6 | Amrani | Amrani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chota | flat |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 absent | cop |
| 8 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 absent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 13 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | nsubj |
| 14 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Dalu | flat |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 brother | case |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tried | cc |
| 24 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forced | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 seduce | mark |
| 26 | seduce | seduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 tried | xcomp |
| 27 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 seduce | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Chota | the city | absent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | force | past | Dalu | Chota's way | Chota's brother's house | day | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | ||
| 3 | try | past | Dalu not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | seduce not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dalu not said here | Fatima | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatima=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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