Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 205
The reigning King Amrai was beloved by his people and when his queen died, he would not give her place to another.
Who acts: people, queen, BRAHMANABAD · What happens: reign, belov, die, not give · To what, where: reigning King Amrai, place, another
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 (people, queen, BRAHMANABAD), 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 | 4 Amrai | det |
| 2 | reigning | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Amrai | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Amrai | compound |
| 4 | Amrai | Amrai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beloved | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beloved | aux:pass |
| 6 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 people | nmod:poss |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beloved | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 died | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 queen | nmod:poss |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 died | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 give | advmod |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beloved | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 place | nmod:poss |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 another | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 give | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beloved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | belov | past · passive | BRAHMANABAD's people | the reigning King Amrai | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | past | BRAHMANABAD's queen | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | not give | would | BRAHMANABAD | queen's place | another | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to another=Recipient |
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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