Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 23
When only six days old, he compelled the fakir La Ikhtyar, who was his devoted slave, to go through the ceremony of becoming his disciple.
Who acts: Makhdum, La, ceremony · What happens: compel, be, go, become · To what, where: La, devoted slave, ceremony, disciple
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 (Makhdum, La, ceremony), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 old | mark |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 six | advmod |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 old | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 compelled | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 compelled | nsubj |
| 8 | compelled | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fakir | det |
| 10 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 La | nmod:desc |
| 11 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 compelled | obj |
| 12 | Ikhtyar | Ikhtyar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 La | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slave | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 slave | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 slave | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 slave | nmod:poss |
| 17 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slave | amod |
| 18 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 La | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 compelled | conj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 ceremony | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ceremony | det |
| 24 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 becoming | mark |
| 26 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 ceremony | acl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 disciple | nmod:poss |
| 28 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 becoming | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compel | past | Makhdum | La the fakir and Makhdum's devoted slave | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent la=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | La the fakir and Makhdum's devoted slave | Makhdum's devoted slave | Makhdum nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Makhdum not said here | the ceremony | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ceremony=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | become | gerund | the ceremony not said here | Makhdum's disciple | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient disciple=Result |
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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