Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 20
He, however, blessed the amorous Hindu lady and nine months from that very day, she presented to her husband a son called Zabhar.
Who acts: saint, woman · What happens: bless, present, call · To what, where: amorous Hindu lady, son, husband · 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 (saint, woman), 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 | 5 blessed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 He | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 blessed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 7 | amorous | amorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 8 | Hindu | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | compound |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blessed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 months | cc |
| 11 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 months | nummod |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lady | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 day | advmod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blessed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 presented | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 presented | nsubj |
| 19 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blessed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 presented | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 son | det |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 presented | obj |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 son | acl |
| 26 | Zabhar | Zabhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | past | saint | the amorous Hindu lady and nine months | day | however property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||
| 2 | present | past | woman | a son | woman's husband | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Theme to husband=Recipient | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a son not said here | Zabhar xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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