Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 207
Unhappily so evil was the lad’s nature, that the more care the king spent on him the worse he grew.
Who acts: evil, Amrai · What happens: be, spend, grow · To what, where: nature, king
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 (evil, Amrai), 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 | Unhappily | unhappily | ADV | _ | 2 so | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 nature | advmod |
| 3 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nature | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nature | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lad | det |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nature | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 lad | case |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 care | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 care | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 care | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 care | amod |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nature | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 care | appos |
| 16 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 king | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spent | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 worse | det |
| 20 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 spent | parataxis |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 worse | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | evil | the lad's nature and the more care | the lad nmod:poss; the more care conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spend | participle | the king not said here | on Amrai | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on he=Goal | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | Amrai | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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