Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 183
The noble lady virtuously resisted all his efforts to lead her astray and fortunately before he could use violence to her, Chota Amrani returned.
Who acts: noble lady, Chota · What happens: resist, lead, use, return · To what, where: efforts, violence, 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 (noble lady, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resisted | nsubj |
| 4 | virtuously | virtuously | ADV | _ | 5 resisted | advmod |
| 5 | resisted | resist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 efforts | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 resisted | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 lead | mark |
| 10 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 resisted | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 astray | nmod:poss |
| 12 | astray | astray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lead | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 use | cc |
| 14 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 18 use | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 use | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 use | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 use | aux |
| 18 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 astray | conj |
| 19 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 use | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 use | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 23 | Chota | Chota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 24 | Amrani | Amrani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Chota | flat |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astray | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resist | past | the noble lady | Chota's efforts | virtuously property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive | the noble lady not said here | astray property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | use | could | Chota | violence | Fatima | fortunately property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violence=Patient | ||
| 4 | return | past | Chota | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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