Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 216
He instantly resolved to treat the old man in such a way that neither he nor any other old man in the kingdom would accept the post again.
Who acts: king, other old man · What happens: resolve, treat, man, accept · To what, where: old man, way, kingdom
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, other old man), 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 | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 treat | mark |
| 5 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treat | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 way | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treat | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 accept | obj |
| 14 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 man | cc:preconj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 man | nsubj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 man | cc |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 man | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 accept | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nmod |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 accept | aux |
| 25 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 post | det |
| 27 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 accept | obj |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 accept | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | king | instantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | treat | to-infinitive | king not said here | the old man | such way | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||
| 3 | man | king | the kingdom | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | accept | would | any other old man | such way | again | the post obj | 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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