Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 240
The prince pretended to be sorry for what he had done and then asked the girl to give him a drink of water from her jar.
Who acts: prince · What happens: pretend, be, do, ask, give · To what, where: girl, drink, prince, jar
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 (prince), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sorry | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sorry | cop |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pretended | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sorry | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 asked | advmod |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretended | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 drink | det |
| 21 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drink | nmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 jar | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 jar | nmod:poss |
| 26 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | what obl; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince not said here | the girl | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | a drink of water | prince | girl's jar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=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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