Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 215

Although the king said nothing to Dalu Rai, the latter guessed, when an aged pandit called on him, that he was in some way to be over him.

Who acts: king · What happens: say, guess, pandit, call, be · To what, where: nothing, Dalu, latter aged pandit, way · 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 (king), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Dalu	case
7	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	Rai	Rai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Dalu	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pandit	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pandit	det
11	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pandit	amod
12	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pandit	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pandit	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 pandit	advmod
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pandit	det
16	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pandit	amod
17	pandit	pandit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Dalu	appos
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pandit	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 way	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 way	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 way	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 way	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	31 him	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 him	cop
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 way	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king	nothing	Dalu			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to dalu=Recipient
2	guess	participle						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	pandit							tree rules
4	call	participle		the latter aged pandit not said here			on king	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	king			some way		tree rules
6	is	to-infinitive	king not said here				over Dalu	tree rules

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 215

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 215